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  • Thumbnail for Edward Burnett Tylor
    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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    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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  • understanding the processes that constitute society. According to Sir Edward Tylor: "Culture, or civilization, taken in its broad, ethnographic sense...
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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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  • Smith Paget Toynbee Richard Chenevix Trench Henry Frederic Turle Edward Burnett Tylor Herbert Warren Hensleigh Wedgwood Richard Francis Weymouth Richard...
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  • Lawson Oyekan, and many contemporary Pagans. English anthropologist Sir Edward Tylor initially wanted to describe the phenomenon as spiritualism, but he...
    68 KB (7,881 words) - 20:51, 25 March 2024
  • 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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  • School of cultural anthropology. Founded by Marett's older colleague, Edward Burnett Tylor, it asserted that modern primitive societies provide evidence for...
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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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    of anthropology,[citation needed] comparable to Edward Burnett Tylor's Primitive Culture (1871) and Sir James George Frazer's The Golden Bough (1890),...
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  • as a way to classify—and rank—human beings based on difference. Edward Burnett Tylor (2 October 1832 – 2 January 1917) and James George Frazer (1 January...
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  • 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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  • In 1888, Galton was present when Sir Edward Tylor presented a paper at the Royal Anthropological Institute. Tylor had compiled information on institutions...
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  • and classify the themes of folklore and mythology. In 1871, Edward Burnett Tylor published his Primitive Culture, in which he applied the comparative...
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  • 1879–80 Edward Burnett Tylor 1881–82 Augustus Pitt Rivers 1883–84 William Henry Flower 1885–88 Francis Galton 1890–91 John Beddoe 1891–92 Edward Burnett Tylor...
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  • Thumbnail for Walter Baldwin Spencer
    his time at Oxford, Spencer attended lectures by anthropologist Edward Burnett Tylor, which began a lifelong interest in the field. As a graduate, Spencer...
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  • which would form the Pitt Rivers Museum from 1884. Moseley, with Edward Burnett Tylor, oversaw the transfer of Pitt-Rivers' collection from London to Oxford...
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  • Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts, field marshal (died 1914) 2 October – Edward Burnett Tylor, anthropologist (died 1917) 28 November – Leslie Stephen, writer...
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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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    challenge the idea of his teacher, Tylor, that belief in spirits and animism were inherently irrational. Lang used Tylor's work and his own psychical research...
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