Edward Burnett Tylor
English anthropologist (1832–1917)
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United KingdomHe coined the term that named humanity's oldest impulse — animism, the belief that souls inhabit everything — and built the scaffolding on which modern anthropology still stands, even as it rejects his Victorian certainty that all cultures climb the same ladder from "savagery" to "civilization."
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Edward Burnett Tylor was born on 2 October 1832 and became the English professor who gave anthropology its scientific form. Drawing on Charles Lyell's evolutionary theories, he published Primitive Culture in 1871 and Anthropology in 1881, works that defined the discipline's scope and method for the nineteenth century. He proposed that all societies moved through three stages — savagery, barbarism, civilization — a framework that reflected his era's faith in universal progress. He reintroduced "animism" to describe what he saw as religion's first phase: the belief that souls animate all things…
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