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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Page vii
... temple- Lustration by Water and Fire : its transition from material to sym- bolic purification ; its connexion with special events of life ; its ap- pearance among the lower races - Lustration of new - born children ; of women ; of ...
... temple- Lustration by Water and Fire : its transition from material to sym- bolic purification ; its connexion with special events of life ; its ap- pearance among the lower races - Lustration of new - born children ; of women ; of ...
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... temple the shield he had carried in a former birth , when he was that Euphorbos whom Menelaus slew at the siege of Troy . Afterwards he was Hermotimos , the Klazomenian prophet whose funeral rites were so prematurely celebrated while ...
... temple the shield he had carried in a former birth , when he was that Euphorbos whom Menelaus slew at the siege of Troy . Afterwards he was Hermotimos , the Klazomenian prophet whose funeral rites were so prematurely celebrated while ...
Page 41
... temple which opened the way to the sojourn of the blessed . In the kingdom of Prester John , Maundevile tells of an entrance to the infernal regions : " Sum men clepen it the vale enchanted , some clepen it the vale of develes , and ...
... temple which opened the way to the sojourn of the blessed . In the kingdom of Prester John , Maundevile tells of an entrance to the infernal regions : " Sum men clepen it the vale enchanted , some clepen it the vale of develes , and ...
Page 102
... temples and offerings , and thus have become in fact a regular class of local deities . Among them may be counted the diabolic soul of a certain wicked British officer , whom native worshippers in the 1 Taylor , ' New Zealand , ' p ...
... temples and offerings , and thus have become in fact a regular class of local deities . Among them may be counted the diabolic soul of a certain wicked British officer , whom native worshippers in the 1 Taylor , ' New Zealand , ' p ...
Page 104
... temples for dead men.2 Turning to the dark races of the Pacific , we find the Tas- manians laying their sick round a corpse on the funeral pile , that the dead might come in the night and take out the devils that caused the diseases ...
... temples for dead men.2 Turning to the dark races of the Pacific , we find the Tas- manians laying their sick round a corpse on the funeral pile , that the dead might come in the night and take out the devils that caused the diseases ...
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