Primitive Culture Volume 1

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This classic two-volume work, first published in 1871, was highly influential in the establishment of cultural evolution as the basis for anthropologic studies. Author Edward B. Tylor is widely regarded as the founder of anthropology as a scientific discipline. Volume 1 focuses on social evolution, language, and myth.

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English academic Edward Burnett Tylor (1832-1917) was the first Professor of Anthropology at the University of Oxford. Tylor, who conducted fieldwork in Mexico during the mid-1850s, maintained an evolutionary view of the development of culture and religion. He posited that animism, or the belief in spirits, formed the original basis of religion.