Edward Burnett Tylor
Edward Burnett Tylor
Sir Edward Burnett Tylorwas an English anthropologist, the founder of cultural anthropology...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth2 October 1832
branch draw english-scientist fig ground indian rooted sent smooth themselves trees
The Indian fig trees sent down from every branch suckers, like smooth strings, which rooted themselves in the ground to draw up more water.
building-houses people matter
The habit of building houses upon piles, which was first forced upon the people by the position they had chosen, was afterwards followed as a matter of taste, just as it is in Holland.
lakes valleys mexico
During the Tertiary period the whole valley of Mexico was one great lake.
humanity unbroken lasts
Animism characterizes tribes very low in the scale of humanity, and thence ascends, deeply modified in its transmission, but from first to last preserving an unbroken continuity, into the midst of high modern culture.
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When we had been a week or two in the city of Mexico, we decided upon making an excursion to the great silver mining district of the Real del Monte.