Primitive Culture (book)

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Primitive Culture
Author	Edward Burnett Tylor
Subject	Cultural anthropology
Published	1871

Primitive Culture is an 1871 book by Edward Burnett Tylor. In his book, Tylor debates the relationship between "primitive" societies, and "civilized" societies, a key theme in 19th century anthropological literature.

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Tylor's work can be connected to theories present in 19th century literature including Lewis Henry Morgan's "ethnical periods". Among 19th century anthropologists, many saw what now may be called "tribal" states and societies, as lacking in form, progress, and development. Both Tylor and Morgan aligned somewhat with this viewpoint, Morgan believing in stages in order from savagery, barbarism, to civilization, and Tylor concluding that savagery is the lower stage of civilization. Tylor; unlike Morgan however; believed in "Prichardian Ethnological Monogenism", something he learnt in turn during his travels in Mexico from Henry Christy (1810-1865).^[1] Today, most anthropologists generally believe these views to be unsubstantiated.

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^ Observing "Man" in Situ: Edward Burnett Taylor's Travels Through Mexico, Efram Sera-Shriar, December 2011, p.4, Article 3, Vol.38, Issue 2, History of Anthropology Newsletter, University of Pennysylvania | Available at [1]| Accessed Online on 01.08.2022

https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/morgan-lewis/ancient-society/ch01.htm
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Primitive-Culture-by-Tylor
Lowie, Robert H. (1917). "Edward B. Tylor". American Anthropologist. 19 (2): 262–268. doi:10.1525/aa.1917.19.2.02a00050. JSTOR 660758.
Larsen, Timothy (2013). "E.B. Tylor, religion and anthropology". The British Journal for the History of Science. 46 (3): 467–485. doi:10.1017/S0007087412000039. JSTOR 43820407. S2CID 145112040.

Stanley Diamond, In Search of the Primitive, Transaction Publishers, U.S. 1987, ISBN 0-87855-582-X
Adam Kuper, The Reinvention of Primitive Society. Transformations of a Myth, Taylor & Francis Ltd. 2005, ISBN 0-415-35761-6
Joseph Campbell, The Masks of God: Primitive Mythology, Viking, 1959; reissued by Penguin, 1991 ISBN 978-0-14-019443-2
Joseph Campbell, The Historical Atlas of World Mythology, vols. I and II, Harper and Row 1988, 1989.
Morgan, Lewis, H. (1877) Ancient Society, "Ethnical Periods".

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