Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Art, and CustomEdward Burnett Tylor (1832-1917) was an English anthropologist who is widely considered the founder of anthropology as a scientific discipline. He was the first Professor of Anthropology at the University of Oxford from 1896 to 1909, and developed a broad definition of culture which is still used by scholars. First published in 1871, this classic work explains Tylor's idea of cultural evolution in relation to anthropology, a social theory which states that human cultures invariably change over time to become more complex. Unlike his contemporaries, Tylor did not link biological evolution to cultural evolution, asserting that all human minds are the same irrespective of a society's state of evolution. His book was extremely influential in popularising the study of anthropology and establishing cultural evolution as the main theoretical framework followed by anthropologists in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Volume 2 contains Tylor's interpretation of animism in society. |
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... Doctrine of Soul's Existence after Death ; its main divisions, Transmigration and Future Life — Transmigration of Souls: re-birth in Human and Animal Bodies, transference to Plants and Objects — Resurrection of Body scarcely held in ...
... Doctrine of Soul's Existence after Death ; its main divisions, Transmigration and Future Life — Transmigration of Souls: re-birth in Human and Animal Bodies, transference to Plants and Objects — Resurrection of Body scarcely held in ...
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... Doctrine of Souls to the wider Doctrine of Spirits, becomes a complete Philosophy of Natural Religion — Definition of Spirits similar to and apparently modelled on that of Souls — Transition-stage : classes of Souls passing into good ...
... Doctrine of Souls to the wider Doctrine of Spirits, becomes a complete Philosophy of Natural Religion — Definition of Spirits similar to and apparently modelled on that of Souls — Transition-stage : classes of Souls passing into good ...
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... Doctrine of Divine Supremacy, distinct from, while tending towards, the doctrine of Monotheism — Idea of Supreme Deity evolved in various forms among the lower races ; its place as completion of the Polytheistic system and outcome of ...
... Doctrine of Divine Supremacy, distinct from, while tending towards, the doctrine of Monotheism — Idea of Supreme Deity evolved in various forms among the lower races ; its place as completion of the Polytheistic system and outcome of ...
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... — Action of the Science of Culture, as a means of furthering progress and removing hindrance, effective in the course of Civilization . .... 401 PEIMITIVE CULTUBE CHAPTER XII. ANIMISM— continued. Doctrine of Soul's Existence viii CONTENTS.
... — Action of the Science of Culture, as a means of furthering progress and removing hindrance, effective in the course of Civilization . .... 401 PEIMITIVE CULTUBE CHAPTER XII. ANIMISM— continued. Doctrine of Soul's Existence viii CONTENTS.
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Contents
Journey of the Soul to the Land of the DeadVisits by the Living to | 40 |
ANIMISM continued | 99 |
Spirits regarded as personal causes of Phenomena of the WorldPervading | 168 |
CHAPTER XVI | 224 |
ANIMISM continued | 276 |
CHAPTER XVIII | 328 |
CONCLUSION | 401 |
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