Edward B. Tylor
historical figure · 2 works · 3 mentions · 5 anchored passages
Mr. Tylor · Tylor
in the texts
Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
Anthropologist credited with the concept of 'survival' used to explain persistent customs.
Tylor has taught us to call a survival, an ancient and inveterate habit, which in this case continued through the misfortune which denied to Ireland the great condition of modern legal ideas, a strong central government.
Tylor’s phrase) a mere survival, confined to cases when the denial of justice was condemned by superstition or by a sense of the sternest public emergency;
Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
Anthropologist author of 'Primitive Culture', quoted repeatedly on ancestor worship.
Their original character, and the nature of the feelings associated with them, may be gathered from the account of its own ancestor-worship which Canon Callaway (apud Tylor, ‘Primitive Culture,’ ii.
Tylor’s reflections on the whole of this marvellous system of belief and practice (‘Primitive Culture,’ ii.
Tylor (‘Primitive Culture,’ ii.