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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... Tree - Worship : Spirits embodied in or inhabiting Trees ; Spirits of Groves and Forests — Animal - Worship : Animals worshipped , directly , or as incarnations or representatives of Deities ; Totem - Worship ; Ser- pent - Worship ...
... Tree - Worship : Spirits embodied in or inhabiting Trees ; Spirits of Groves and Forests — Animal - Worship : Animals worshipped , directly , or as incarnations or representatives of Deities ; Totem - Worship ; Ser- pent - Worship ...
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... trees , where it may be seen damp and blood - like , but no longer personal and sentient ; and the Santals of Bengal are said to fancy that uncharitable men and childless women are eaten eternally by worms and snakes , while the good ...
... trees , where it may be seen damp and blood - like , but no longer personal and sentient ; and the Santals of Bengal are said to fancy that uncharitable men and childless women are eaten eternally by worms and snakes , while the good ...
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... tree . At last , when he became the supreme Buddha , his mind , like a vessel overflowing with honey , over- flowed with the ambrosia of truth , and he proclaimed his triumph over life : — " Painful are repeated births . O house ...
... tree . At last , when he became the supreme Buddha , his mind , like a vessel overflowing with honey , over- flowed with the ambrosia of truth , and he proclaimed his triumph over life : — " Painful are repeated births . O house ...
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... tree to tree , hither and thither till the dead is burned . " In medieval Europe " 1 Taylor , New Zealand , ' p . 221 ; Schirren , p . 91 . 2 Morgan , ' League of Iroquois , ' p . 174 . 3 J. G. Müller , p . 286 . 4 Castrén , Finn . Myth ...
... tree to tree , hither and thither till the dead is burned . " In medieval Europe " 1 Taylor , New Zealand , ' p . 221 ; Schirren , p . 91 . 2 Morgan , ' League of Iroquois , ' p . 174 . 3 J. G. Müller , p . 286 . 4 Castrén , Finn . Myth ...
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... trees where Siberian tribes suspend their dead ; it lingers by the Samoyed's scaffolded coffin ; it haunts the Dayak's place of burial or burning ; it inhabits the little soul - hut above the Malagasy grave , or the Peruvian house of ...
... trees where Siberian tribes suspend their dead ; it lingers by the Samoyed's scaffolded coffin ; it haunts the Dayak's place of burial or burning ; it inhabits the little soul - hut above the Malagasy grave , or the Peruvian house of ...
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