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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Edward Burnett Tylor. CHAPTER III . SURVIVAL IN CULTURE . Survival and Superstition - Children's games - Games of chance- Traditional sayings - Nursery poems - Proverbs - Riddles — Signi- ficance and survival in Customs : sneezing ...
... survival has , indeed , no small practical importance , for most of what we call superstition is in- cluded within survival , and in this way lies open to the attack of its deadliest enemy , a reasonable explanation . Insigni- ficant ...
... Survival . In examining the survival of opinions in the midst of conditions of society becoming gradually estranged from them , and tending at last to suppress them altogether , much may be learnt from the history of one of the most ...
Contents
THE DEVELOPMENT OF CULTURE | 21 |
SURVIVAL IN CULTURE | 70 |
Occult SciencesMagical powers attributed by higher to lower races | 112 |
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