Sir Edward Burnett Tylor FRAI (2 October 1832 – 2 January 1917) was an English anthropologist, and professor of anthropology. Tylor's ideas typify 19th-century...

Byproduct theories view religion as a spandrel. The anthropologist Edward Burnett Tylor (1832–1917) defined religion as belief in spiritual beings and stated...

Primitive Culture is an 1871 book by Edward Burnett Tylor. In his book, Tylor debates the relationship between "primitive" societies, and "civilized" societies...

of shamanism and such ideas are very much like those developed by Edward Burnett Tylor in his theory of animism; in which there are other parallel worlds...

Americas. The comparative mythology of the World-Tortoise discussed by Edward Burnett Tylor (1878:341) includes the counterpart World Elephant. The World Turtle...

Tylor is an English surname and given name meaning “tiler”. Charles Tylor (1816–1902), British minister and author Edward Burnett Tylor (1832–1917), British...

commentary, and is associated with scholars like Auguste Comte, Edward Burnett Tylor, Lewis Henry Morgan, and Herbert Spencer. Social evolutionism represented...

among others. Its immediate precursor took shape in the work of Edward Burnett Tylor and James George Frazer in the late 19th century and underwent major...

were the young Edward Burnett Tylor, inventor of cultural anthropology, and his brother Alfred Tylor, a geologist. Previously Edward had referred to...

Campbell Archetypal literary criticism Mircea Eliade René Girard Edward Burnett Tylor Dying-and-rising deity Sacred king Seclusion of girls at puberty...