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EDWARD BURNETT TYLOR (1832- )

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 498 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EDWARD See also:BURNETT See also:TYLOR (1832- )  , See also:English anthropologist, was See also:born at See also:Camberwell, See also:London, on the 2nd of See also:October 1832, the son of See also:Joseph See also:Tylor, a brassfounder . See also:Alfred Tylor, the geologist, was an See also:elder See also:brother . His parents were members of the Society of See also:Friends, at one of whose See also:schools, at See also:Grove See also:House, See also:Tottenham, he was educated . In 1848 he entered his See also:father's manufactory in London, but at about the See also:age of twenty he was threatened with See also:consumption and forced to abandon business . During 1855-1856 he travelled in the See also:United States of See also:America to recruit his See also:health . Proceeding in 1856 to See also:Cuba, he met See also:Henry See also:Christy the ethnologist, with whom he visited See also:Mexico . Tylor's association with Christy greatly stimulated his awakening See also:interest in See also:anthropology, and his visit to Mexico, with its See also:rich prehistoric remains, led him to make a systematic study of the See also:science . While on a visit to See also:Cannes he wrote a See also:record of his observations, entitled See also:Anahuac; or, Mexico and the Mexicans, See also:Ancient. and See also:Modern, which was published in 1861 . In 1865 appeared Researches into the See also:Early See also:History of Mankind, which made Tylor's reputation . It showed See also:great See also:research, See also:original insight, and much constructive See also:power in the formation of systematic views . The chapters on early myths and their See also:geographical See also:distribution are especially valuable . The See also:work reached a third edition in 1878 .

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book was followed in 1871 by the more elaborate See also:Primitive Culture: Researches into the Development of See also:Mythology, See also:Philosophy, See also:Religion, See also:Language, See also:Art and See also:Custom, which at once became the See also:standard See also:general See also:treatise on anthropology . Tylor's treatment of See also:animism (chs.xi.-xvii.) was particularly elaborate, and he first determined the limits of that See also:province of anthropology intending it to include " the general See also:doctrine of souls, and other spiritual beings." In 1881 See also:Tyler published a smaller and more popular handbook on Anthropology . His work had already met with recognition . In 1871 he was elected F.R.S., and in 1875 received the honorary degree of D.C.L. from the university of See also:Oxford . He was appointed keeper of the University Museum at Oxford in 1883, and reader in anthropology in 1884 . In 1888 he was appointed first See also:Gifford lecturer at See also:Aberdeen University, and delivered a two years' course on " Natural Religion." In 1896 he became first See also:professor of anthropology at Oxford . At the end of 1907 'the See also:Clarendon See also:Press published a See also:volume of Anthropological Essays, to which various representative scholars of a younger See also:generation in the same See also:field had contributed, the essays being dedicated and presented to Tylor as a See also:mark of See also:honour; and this collection includes not only a bibliography of his publications by See also:Miss See also:Freire-Marreco, but also an appreciation of Tylor's See also:life-work by See also:Andrew See also:Lang .

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