Sir Edward Burnett Tylor FRAI (2 October 1832 – 2 January 1917) was an English anthropologist, and professor of anthropology. Tylor's ideas typify 19th-century...
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Tylor is an English surname and given name meaning “tiler”. Charles Tylor (1816–1902), British minister and author Edward Burnett Tylor (1832–1917), British...
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Primitive Culture is an 1871 book by Edward Burnett Tylor. In his book, Tylor debates the relationship between "primitive" societies, and "civilized" societies...
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Theories about religion (section Edward Burnett Tylor)
Byproduct theories view religion as a spandrel. The anthropologist Edward Burnett Tylor (1832–1917) defined religion as belief in spiritual beings and stated...
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Americas. The comparative mythology of the World-Tortoise discussed by Edward Burnett Tylor (1878:341) includes the counterpart World Elephant. The World Turtle...
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Spiritualism (beliefs) (section Edward Burnett Tylor)
of shamanism and such ideas are very much like those developed by Edward Burnett Tylor in his theory of animism, in which there are other parallel worlds...
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commentary, and is associated with scholars like Auguste Comte, Edward Burnett Tylor, Lewis Henry Morgan, and Herbert Spencer. Social evolutionism represented...
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Social anthropology (section Tylor and Frazer)
among others. Its immediate precursor took shape in the work of Edward Burnett Tylor and James George Frazer in the late 19th century and underwent major...
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commentary, and is associated with scholars like Auguste Comte, Edward Burnett Tylor, Lewis Henry Morgan, Benjamin Kidd, L. T. Hobhouse and Herbert Spencer...
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were the young Edward Burnett Tylor, inventor of cultural anthropology, and his brother Alfred Tylor, a geologist. Previously Edward had referred to...
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Myth and ritual (section E. B. Tylor)
relationship between science and technology. The pioneering anthropologist Edward Burnett Tylor is the classic exponent of this view. He saw myth as an attempt to...
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Couvade ([kuvad] ) is a term which was coined by the anthropologist Edward Burnett Tylor in 1865 to refer to certain rituals in several cultures that fathers...
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people including Cesare Lombroso, Ernest Crawley, Charles Darwin, Edward Burnett Tylor and modern scholars such as Elaine Hatfield. Kristoffer Nyrop identified...
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Radcliffe-Brown, Marshall Sahlins, Nancy Scheper-Hughes (b. 1944), and Edward Burnett Tylor (1832–1917). Association of Black Anthropologists Biologist List...
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[citation needed] Edward Burnett Tylor (1832-1917), sometimes called the “father of anthropology,” took an evolutionary approach to religion. Tylor defined religion...
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Mahmood Marshall Sahlins Melford Spiro Stanley Tambiah Victor Turner Edward Burnett Tylor Daniel Martin Varisco Anthony F. C. Wallace Journals Anthropological...
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Spirit becoming conscious of Himself through the finite spirit." Edward Burnett Tylor defined religion in 1871 as "the belief in spiritual beings". He...
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Campbell Archetypal literary criticism Mircea Eliade René Girard Edward Burnett Tylor Dying-and-rising deity Sacred king Seclusion of girls at puberty...
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mythology, the foremost exponents of which included Max Müller and Edward Burnett Tylor. This theory posited that "primitive man" was primarily concerned...
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Mahmood Marshall Sahlins Melford Spiro Stanley Tambiah Victor Turner Edward Burnett Tylor Daniel Martin Varisco Anthony F. C. Wallace Journals Anthropological...
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Mahmood Marshall Sahlins Melford Spiro Stanley Tambiah Victor Turner Edward Burnett Tylor Daniel Martin Varisco Anthony F. C. Wallace Journals Anthropological...
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condition that a permanent lecturer in anthropology must be appointed. Edward Burnett Tylor thereby became the first lecturer in anthropology in the UK following...
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of the classics of anthropology,[citation needed] comparable to Edward Burnett Tylor's Primitive Culture (1871) and Sir James George Frazer's The Golden...
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Mahmood Marshall Sahlins Melford Spiro Stanley Tambiah Victor Turner Edward Burnett Tylor Daniel Martin Varisco Anthony F. C. Wallace Journals Anthropological...
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comparative and "primitive" religion through the work of Max Müller, Edward Burnett Tylor, William Robertson Smith, James George Frazer, Émile Durkheim, Max...
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and deism (God created the universe and then withdrew Himself). Edward Burnett Tylor, Primitive culture: researches into the development of mythology...
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the general human application of the representativeness heuristic. Edward Burnett Tylor coined the term "associative thinking", characterizing it as pre-logical...
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