Primitive Culture Volume 2

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Volume 2 of this classic two-part work by the distinguished anthropologist Edward B. Tylor focuses on the social interpretation of animism - the belief that everything, even an inanimate object, possesses a soul. Starting with prehistoric expressions of animism, Tylor examines the evolution of religion to trace the development of mind and culture.

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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.