biography
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Tylor, Sir Edward Burnet
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| lived:
| (1832–1917)
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| biography:
| Anthropologist, born in London, UK. Educated as a Quaker, he became a clerk in the family business. A journey to America for health reasons was followed by a visit to Mexico, his experiences being published in Ahahuac (1861). His first major anthropological study appeared in 1865, and in 1871 he published his monumental Primitive Culture (2 vols). In this work he sought to show that human culture is governed by definite laws of evolutionary development, such that the beliefs and practices of primitive nations may be taken to represent earlier stages in the progress of mankind. He later became keeper of the University Museum at Oxford, and first professor of anthropology at Oxford (1896–1909). Widely regarded as the founder of the systematic study of human culture, he was knighted in 1912. |
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