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In: Journal of the Royal United Service Institution, Band 38, Heft 199, S. 979-989
ISSN: 1744-0378
In: American anthropologist: AA, Band A10, Heft 9, S. 303-311
ISSN: 1548-1433
In: Transactions of the Ethnological Society of London, Band 3, S. 307
ISSN: 2397-5261
In: Transactions of the Ethnological Society of London, Band 2, S. 130
ISSN: 2397-5261
In: The Economic Journal, Band 8, Heft 29, S. 111
In: Cambridge library collection. Anthropology
Edward Burnett Tylor (1832–1917) was an English anthropologist who is widely considered the founder of anthropology as a scientific discipline. He was the first Professor of Anthropology at the University of Oxford from 1896 to 1909, and developed a broad definition of culture which is still used by scholars. First published in 1871, this classic work explains Tylor's idea of cultural evolution in relation to anthropology, a social theory which states that human cultures invariably change over time to become more complex. Unlike his contemporaries, Tylor did not link biological evolution to cultural evolution, asserting that all human minds are the same irrespective of a society's state of evolution. His book was extremely influential in popularising the study of anthropology and establishing cultural evolution as the main theoretical framework followed by anthropologists in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Volume 1 focuses on social evolution, language and myth
In: Journal of political economy, Band 6, Heft 3, S. 426-430
ISSN: 1537-534X
In: Transactions of the Ethnological Society of London, Band 5, S. 305
ISSN: 2397-5261
In: American anthropologist: AA, Band A10, Heft 10, S. 348-351
ISSN: 1548-1433
In: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433082327465
Includes index. ; Mode of access: Internet. ; Military Service Inst.
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