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Tylor
/ ˈtaɪlə /
noun
- TylorSir Edward Burnett18321917MBritishSOCIAL SCIENCE: anthropologist Sir Edward Burnett. 1832–1917, British anthropologist; first professor of anthropology at Oxford (1896). His Primitive Culture (1871) became a standard work
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"This view will not bear examination," says Mr. Tylor, and we shall later demonstrate the accuracy of his remark.
Mr. Andrew Lang has remarked, following Dr. Tylor, that in this taboo the fairy mistress is “the representative of the stone age.”
Among these notions are “ideas of moral judgment and retribution after death,” which in Australia Mr. Tylor marks as “imported.”
Since Tylor wrote his memorable work, the doctrine of animism has become classical.
Such added proof we hope to be able to show in Dr. Tylor's figures.
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