Edward Burnett Tylor

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History & Culture

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1. When was Edward Burnett Tylor born?October 2, 1832
2. When did Edward Burnett Tylor die?January 2, 1917
3. What nationality was Edward Burnett Tylor?English
4. What is the academic field?Anthropology
5. What is the key publications?Primitive Culture (1871), Anthropology (1881)
6. Who was Edward Burnett Tylor?Edward Burnett Tylor was a smart explorer who studied how people lived long, long ago and helped start the study of human cultures called anthropology.

Cultural Evolutionism: A theoretical perspective suggesting that cultures progress through a series of universal, sequential stages.
Animism: The belief that spirits or souls inhabit natural objects, phenomena, and beings.
Ethnography: The scientific description of the customs of individual peoples and cultures, based on fieldwork.
Unilinear Evolution: A specific form of cultural evolutionism positing a single, inevitable path of development for all societies.