Sir Edward Burnett Tylor, the son of Joseph and Harriet (Skipper) Tylor, was born on October 2, 1832, in Camberwell, London, England. His father, a prosperous Quaker industrialist who owned a brass foundry, sent Tylor to Grove House, a private school...

The English anthropologist Sir Edward Burnett Tylor (1832-1917) was concerned with theories of cultural evolution and diffusion, and he advanced influential theories regarding the origins of magic and religion. Edward B. Tylor was born in London into a...

The writings of Edward Burnett Tylor, "founder of modern anthropology," are classics of Victorian social science and of "the warfare between science and religion." Even though much of its evolutionary framework was discarded by later anthropologists,...

TYLOR, E. B. (1832–1917) was an English anthropologist, often called "the father of British anthropology." Edward Burnett Tylor was born in London on October 2, 1832, the son of a brass-founder. Both his parents were members of the...

1832-1917 English anthropologist who is considered the founder of cultural anthropology. Tylor was influenced by Charles Darwin's work and theorized that there is an evolutionary relationship between primitive and modern cultures. He saw a...

Sir Edward Burnett Tylor (October 2 1832–January 2 1917), was an English anthropologist. Tylor is considered representative of cultural evolutionism. In his works Primitive culture and Anthropology, he defined the context of scientific study of...

George Stocking had planned to write a comparative history of British social anthropology in 1969, to add perspective to his thinking on American cultural anthropology. Working extensively on manuscript archives he soon found that this work needed not one, but three, volumes, so...

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