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Name: Edward Burnett Tylor, Sir
Birth Date: October 2, 1832
Death Date: January 2, 1917
Place of Birth: London, England
Place of Death: Wellington, England
Nationality: English
Gender: Male
Occupations: anthropologist

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Biography of Edward Burnett Tylor, Sir
825 words, approx. 3 pages
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...
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Biography of Edward Burnett Tylor, Sir
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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...
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Biography of Edward Burnett Tylor
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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,...


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Tylor, E. B. Summary
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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...
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Sir Edward Burnett Tylor Summary
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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...
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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...


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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
After Tylor: British Social Anthropology, 1888-1951. (book reviews)
06/01/1997: 830 words, approx. 3 pages
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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