Foundational 1871 anthropology text on cultural evolution, myth, language, and animism across human societies.
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Foundational 1871 anthropology text on cultural evolution, myth, language, and animism across human societies.
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Edward 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 ove...
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Brief references to foundation sacrifices and similar customs
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Core focus on animism, myth, ritual, and comparative religion
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Central cultural-evolution theory from savagery to civilization
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