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" Civilization, taken in its wide 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: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy ... - Page 1
by Edward Burnett Tylor - 1871
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Handbook of Management Accounting Research

Christopher S. Chapman, Anthony G. Hopwood, Michael D. Shields - Business & Economics - 2006 - 560 pages
...culture convey the same general sense of meaning as Tyler's (1871) early definition of culture: ... that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art,...any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society. In addition to conceiving of culture in terms of mental attributes, researchers...
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Teaching Adolescents: Educational Psychology as a Science of Signs

Howard A. Smith - Education - 2007 - 417 pages
...we mean by culture? In 1871, Edward Tylor offered an early important definition of culture as 'that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art,...any other capabilities and habits acquired by man [and woman] as a member of society' (quoted in Hutchins, 1995, 353). In his famous 1957 definition,...
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The Creationist Debate: The Encounter between the Bible and the Historical Mind

Arthur McCalla - Religion - 2006 - 244 pages
...arch-evolutionary anthropologist, had famously defined culture on the first page of Primitive Culture as 'that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art,...any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society'. Tylor's concept of culture was part and parcel of his developmentalist evolutionary...
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Americans Without Law: The Racial Boundaries of Citizenship

Mark S. Weiner - Law - 2006 - 197 pages
...evolution. His definition of culture was more expansive than Arnold's. For Tylor, culture included the "complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art,...any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society."28 Yet, as historian George W. Stocking, Jr. notes, Tylor's definition of culture...
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Language and Culture: Global Flows and Local Complexity

Karen Risager - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2006 - 227 pages
...Tylor, who is reckoned as being the first to describe the particularly anthropological subject area12: Culture or Civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic...that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morale, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society....
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2007 MBA联考备考教程: 英语分册

English language - 2006 - 498 pages
...achievements of 19th century science. (64)Tylor defined culture as"... that complex whole which includes belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society." This insight, so profound in its simplicity, opened up an entirely new way...
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考研英语难句突破300句

庆学先, 万晓燕 - 2006 - 241 pages
...is because Western countries have 25. Tylor defined culture as "-"that complex whole which includes belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society. " tu fefli, belief-" other capabilities and habitsc define !:^ "j£X i¥SBiftHJ...
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Sin, Salvation and Redemption

Herbert W. Byrne - Religion - 2006 - 105 pages
...cursed. (Gen 3:17-19) A perfect social order was destroyed. Culture can be defined as civilization, that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom and any other habits and capabilities acquired by man as a member of society. It includes all the products of human...
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Understanding Cultural Diversity in Today's Complex World

Dr. Leo Parvis - Education - 2005 - 230 pages
...variety of human experience: "Culture... is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, arts, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society (Scupin, 2003)." In other words, as Laroche (2003, p. 68) puts it, "culture...
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Colonies, Cults and Evolution: Literature, Science and Culture in Nineteenth ...

David Amigoni - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 12 pages
...engaged in an argument over the meanings of'culture' in the late 1860s and early 1870s. Tylor stated that 'Culture or Civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic...any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society.' 22 For Stocking, Tylor's use of the term 'culture' where 'civilisation' might...
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