Tylor, Edward Burnett (1832-1917)
Centro di ricerca Mobilità Diversità Inclusione sociale (MODI)-Università di Bologna
Edward Burnett Tylor (1832-1917) was the first chair of anthropology in the United Kingdom at Oxford University (1895) and a major figure in Victorian evolutionary anthropology. In his best-known book, Primitive Culture, published in 1871, he aimed to shed light on the origins and development of culture, especially religion, through a comparative analysis of a vast body of ethnographic and historical data, encompassing humanity as a whole. His many publications also include Anahuac (1861), Researches into the Early History of Mankind and the Development of Civilization (1865), and Anthropology (1881).
Keywords: Evolutionism | Second half of the 19th century | First quarter of the 20th century | United Kingdom | Universal comparison | Religion | Family and kinship | Cultural diffusion and migrations | Concept of culture | Material culture
Secondary sources
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“Cause, Process, and Dynamics in the Evolutionism of E.B. Tylor”
Morris E. Opler, 1964
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“‘Cultural Darwinism’ and ‘Philosophical Idealism’ in E. B. Tylor : A Special Plea for Historicism in the History of Anthropology”
George W. Stocking Jr., 1965
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“Animism in Theory and Practice : E. B. Tylor’s Unpublished ‘Notes on Spiritualism’”
George W. Stocking Jr., 1971
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“Tylor’s Solar Sixpence”
Joan Leopold, 1973
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“Rethinking Animism: Thoughts from the Infancy of Our Discipline”
Martin D. Stringer, 1999
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“Edward Tylor e a extraordinária evolução religiosa da humanidade”
Frederico Delgado Rosa, 2010
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“Edward Burnett Tylor (1832-1917)”
Alison Petch, 2012
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« Aux archives de l’animisme : ethnographie et théorie de la “religion sauvage” chez Edward Tylor »
Frederico Delgado Rosa, 2015
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“Matthew Arnold, E.B. Tylor, and the Uses of Invention”
George W. Stocking Jr., 1963
Primary sources
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Anahuac: Or Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern
Edward B. Tylor, 1861
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Researches into the Early History of Mankind and the Development of Civilization
Edward B. Tylor, 1865
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Primitive Culture
Edward B. Tylor, 1871
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Primitive Culture
Edward B. Tylor, 1883-1889 [1871]
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Anthropology : An Introduction to the Study of Man and Civilization
Edward B. Tylor, 1881
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“On a Method of Investigating the Development of Institutions applied to Laws of Marriage and Descent”
Edward B. Tylor, 1888
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“A Bibliography of Edward Burnett Tylor. From 1861 to 1907”
Barbara Freire‑Marreco, 1907
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