Title: Primitive Culture - Volume One: Researches into the development of mythology, philosophy, religion, language, art, and custom (Fourth Edition) (Paperback or Softback)
Publisher: Serpent Books 1/12/2025
Publication Date: 2025
Language: English
ISBN 10: 9198940090
ISBN 13: 9789198940091
Binding: Paperback or Softback
Condition: New
Weight: 1.69 pounds
Book Type: Book

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Edward Burnett Tylor’s Primitive Culture (1871) is one of the founding works of anthropology. In this first volume, Tylor lays out his central ideas: the psychic unity of humankind, the role of animism as the foundation of religion, and the importance of survivals for tracing the continuity of human customs. Drawing on folklore, mythology, and ethnography from every continent, he created the first comprehensive framework for a science of culture.

This edition, part of the Serpent Library Classics, is a curated facsimile: it preserves the original pagination but has been carefully cleaned of blemishes and presented in a slightly larger, more comfortable font than other reprints. It also includes a substantial new foreword by anthropologist Nikolas �rhem, who has carried out fieldwork in West Africa and Southeast Asia and written extensively on witchcraft, animism, and ritual, situating Tylor’s achievement in the light of later scholarship.

Readers can continue through Tylor’s argument in Volume Two, also available in the Serpent Library Classics.

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