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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... Stone - Worship - Idolatry — Survival of Animistic Phraseology in modern Language - Decline of Animistic theory of Nature PAGE 99 CHAPTER XV . ANIMISM ( continued ) . - Spirits regarded as personal causes of Phenomena of the World ...
... Stone - Worship - Idolatry — Survival of Animistic Phraseology in modern Language - Decline of Animistic theory of Nature PAGE 99 CHAPTER XV . ANIMISM ( continued ) . - Spirits regarded as personal causes of Phenomena of the World ...
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... stone , is a most important part of the lower psychology . But it does not relate to the continued existence of the soul after death , and may be more conveniently treated of elsewhere , in connexion with such subjects as demoniacal ...
... stone , is a most important part of the lower psychology . But it does not relate to the continued existence of the soul after death , and may be more conveniently treated of elsewhere , in connexion with such subjects as demoniacal ...
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... stone , as did Nabal's , " and he became a stone . " Within the range of Christian influence , the Manichæans appear as the most remarkable exponents of the metempsychosis . We hear of their ideas of sinners ' souls transmigrating into ...
... stone , as did Nabal's , " and he became a stone . " Within the range of Christian influence , the Manichæans appear as the most remarkable exponents of the metempsychosis . We hear of their ideas of sinners ' souls transmigrating into ...
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... stone , as one shatters rotten firewood.2 Such , again , were the tales told by the Guinea negroes of the life or death of departed souls . Either the great priest before whom they must appear after death would judge them , sending the ...
... stone , as one shatters rotten firewood.2 Such , again , were the tales told by the Guinea negroes of the life or death of departed souls . Either the great priest before whom they must appear after death would judge them , sending the ...
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... stone after the corpse is carried out , for an obstacle to bar the soul from coming back ; so Brandenburg peasants pour out a pail of water at the door after the coffin , to prevent the ghost from 8 1 Bastian , ' Mensch , ' vol . ii . p ...
... stone after the corpse is carried out , for an obstacle to bar the soul from coming back ; so Brandenburg peasants pour out a pail of water at the door after the coffin , to prevent the ghost from 8 1 Bastian , ' Mensch , ' vol . ii . p ...
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