In April 1871, Edward Burnett Tylor publishes Primitive Culture. Image: Engraving of Edward Burnett Tylor. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.
Drawing on evolutionary theory, Tylor articulates one of the most frequently cited anthropological definitions of culture and created a methodology based on evolutionary theory that led to the formal recognition of anthropology as a science.
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