Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Art, and Custom, Volume 2J. Murray, 1871 - Animism Tylor's ideology is best described in his most famous work, the two-volume Primitive Culture. The first volume, The Origins of Culture, deals with various aspects of ethnography including social evolution, linguistics, and myth. The second volume, titled Religion in Primitive Culture, deals mainly with his interpretation of animism. On the first page of Primitive Culture, Tylor provides an all-inclusive definition which is one of his most widely recognized contributions to anthropology: "Culture, or civilization, taken in its broad, ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society." Primitive Culture remained the pinnacle of Tylor's career, important not only for its thorough study of human civilization and contributions to the emergent field of anthropology, but also for its undeniable influence on a handful of young scholars. |
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... sickness , and assigned this as their reason for wishing to kill white men.1 In Africa , again , the belief is found among the Western negroes that they will rise again white , and the Bari of the White Nile , believing in the ...
... sickness , and assigned this as their reason for wishing to kill white men.1 In Africa , again , the belief is found among the Western negroes that they will rise again white , and the Bari of the White Nile , believing in the ...
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... sickness , till it departs or is driven by the sorcerer to the bank of the River Wolta , where the ghosts build themselves houses and dwell . But they can and do come back from this Land of Souls . They can be born again as souls in new ...
... sickness , till it departs or is driven by the sorcerer to the bank of the River Wolta , where the ghosts build themselves houses and dwell . But they can and do come back from this Land of Souls . They can be born again as souls in new ...
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... sickness in the family it is generally they who are first propitiated . ' Among Turanian races of North Asia , the Chuwash put food and napkins on the grave , saying , " Rise at night and eat your fill , and there 1 Tickell in ' Journ ...
... sickness in the family it is generally they who are first propitiated . ' Among Turanian races of North Asia , the Chuwash put food and napkins on the grave , saying , " Rise at night and eat your fill , and there 1 Tickell in ' Journ ...
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... sickness , declares that the shades of ancestors demand a particular cow , the beast is slaughtered and left shut up for a time for the shades to eat , or for its spirit to go to the land of shades , and then is taken out to be eaten by ...
... sickness , declares that the shades of ancestors demand a particular cow , the beast is slaughtered and left shut up for a time for the shades to eat , or for its spirit to go to the land of shades , and then is taken out to be eaten by ...
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... sickness , Nor by Death dragged from the living , Nor destroyed by other ending . ' Wainamoinen replies with lying reasons . Iron brought him , he says , but Tuoni's daughter answers that no blood drips from his garment ; Fire brought ...
... sickness , Nor by Death dragged from the living , Nor destroyed by other ending . ' Wainamoinen replies with lying reasons . Iron brought him , he says , but Tuoni's daughter answers that no blood drips from his garment ; Fire brought ...
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