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Cover -- Title page -- Copyright -- Preface 1 -- Preface 2 -- Contents -- Chapter I. The Science of Culture. -- Culture or Civilization -- Its phenomena related according to definite Laws -- Method of classification and discussion of the evidence -- Connexion of successive stages of culture by Permanence, Modification, and Survival -- Principal topics examined in the present work -- Chapter II. The Development of Culture. -- Stages of culture, industrial, intellectual, political, moral
Volume 2 of this classic two-part work by the distinguished anthropologist Edward B. Tylor focuses on the social interpretation of animism ― the belief that everything, even an inanimate object, possesses a soul. Starting with prehistoric expressions of animism, Tylor examines the evolution of religion to trace the development of mind and culture.
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