ANTHROPOLOGIST

Edward Burnett Tylor

1832 - 1917

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Sir Edward Burnett Tylor (2 October 1832 – 2 January 1917) was an English anthropologist, and professor of anthropology. Tylor's ideas typify 19th-century cultural evolutionism. In his works Primitive Culture (1871) and Anthropology (1881), he defined the context of the scientific study of anthropology, based on the evolutionary theories of Charles Lyell. He believed that there was a functional basis for the development of society and religion, which he determined was universal. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Edward Burnett Tylor is the 5th most popular anthropologist, the 301st most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 3rd most popular British Anthropologist.

Edward Burnet Tylor is most famous for his theory of animism, which is the belief that all objects and animals have souls.

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Edward Burnett Tylor ranks 5 out of 93. Before him are Claude Lévi-Strauss, Bronisław Malinowski, James George Frazer, and Jane Goodall. After him are Lewis H. Morgan, Paul Broca, Margaret Mead, Franz Boas, Ruth Benedict, Gregory Bateson, and Clifford Geertz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1832, Edward Burnett Tylor ranks 9. Before him are Wilhelm Wundt, Lewis Carroll, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Nikolaus Otto, Maximilian I of Mexico, and Gustave Doré. After him are Ivan Shishkin, José Echegaray, William Crookes, Louisa May Alcott, Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, and Jules Ferry. Among people deceased in 1917, Edward Burnett Tylor ranks 11. Before him are L. L. Zamenhof, Mata Hari, Eduard Buchner, Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Emil von Behring, and Adolf von Baeyer. After him are Emil Theodor Kocher, Buffalo Bill, John William Waterhouse, Dragutin Dimitrijević, Franz Brentano, and Scott Joplin.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Edward Burnett Tylor ranks 301 out of 8,785. Before him are Æthelred the Unready (968), Vanessa Redgrave (1937), Julie Andrews (1935), Randal Cremer (1828), Henry Morton Stanley (1841), and John Keats (1795). After him are Peter Sellers (1925), Rod Stewart (1945), Harold Macmillan (1894), Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1884), John Herschel (1792), and Thomas Becket (1119).

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among anthropologists born in United Kingdom, Edward Burnett Tylor ranks 3. Before him are James George Frazer (1854), and Jane Goodall (1934). After him are Gregory Bateson (1904), Alfred Radcliffe-Brown (1881), E. E. Evans-Pritchard (1902), Mary Leakey (1913), Victor Turner (1920), Edmund Leach (1910), Jack Goody (1919), Ashley Montagu (1905), and Marilyn Strathern (1941).

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