Primitive Culture Volume IUse of the term "culture" as an expression of the full range of learned human behavior patterns began with this classic two-volume work, first published in 1871. Edward B. Tylor, the first Professor of Anthropology at the University of Oxford, declared that culture is "that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, law, morals, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society." Tylor is credited with the establishment of anthropology as a scientific discipline, and his groundbreaking work was highly influential in the development of cultural evolution as the foundation for anthropologic studies. |
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... religious conceptions whatever ? This is practically the question of the universality of religion , which for so many centuries has been affirmed and denied , with a confidence in striking contrast to the imperfect evi- dence on which ...
... religion . " " Among the numerous accounts collected by Sir John Lub- bock as evidence bearing on the absence or low develop- ment of religion among low races , some may be selected as lying open to criticism from this point of view ...
... religion of these White Nile tribes , years before Sir S. Baker's rash denial that they had any religion at all.1 The first requisite in a systematic study of the religions of the lower races , is to lay down a rudimentary definition of ...
Contents
THE DEVELOPMENT OF CULTURE | 21 |
SURVIVAL IN CULTURE | 70 |
Occult SciencesMagical powers attributed by higher to lower races | 112 |
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