 | 1872 - 844 pages
...in their meaning. Regarding " survivals," he describes them as " processes, customs, opinions, etc., which have been carried on by force of habit into...and they thus remain as proofs and examples of an old condition of culture out of which a newer has been evolved. Thus, I know an old Somersetshire woman... | |
 | New Zealand Institute - 1877 - 810 pages
...of the past living on into the present are survivals. EB Tylor defines survivals to be " processes, customs, opinions, and so forth, which have been carried...of culture, out of which a newer has been evolved." Speaking only of one class or department at present, I will show you some curious survivals in marriage... | |
 | 1881 - 1134 pages
...wien de uitdrukking afkomstig is, ze omschrijft — customs, opinions, and so forth, which have heen carried on by force of habit into a new state of society...from that in which they had their original home, and thus remain as proofs and examples ot an older condition of culture out of which a newerhas been evolved."... | |
 | Edward Burnett Tylor - 1889 - 524 pages
...convenient to introduce the term yjmryjyglg," These are processes, customs, opinions, and soSorth, which have been carried on by force of habit into...condition of culture out of which a newer has been evolvechv Thus, I know an old Somersetshire woman whose haniPtoom dates from the time before the introduction... | |
 | Joseph Jacobs, Alfred Trübner Nutt, Arthur Robinson Wright, William Crooke - 1917 - 512 pages
...introducing the term "survivals."2 He applied it to "that great class of facts" constituted by " processes, customs, opinions, and so forth, which have been carried...from that in which they had their original home." Here they " remain as proofs and examples of an older condition of culture out of which a newer has... | |
 | Robert Ranulph Marett - 1920 - 300 pages
...the term " survivals." 1 He applied it to " that great class of facts " constituted by " processes, customs, opinions, and so forth, which have been carried...of habit into a new state of society different from 1 See Primitive Culture (ist edit. 1871), 15 (pp. 16, 17 of 4th edit.) for his claim to this effect,... | |
 | Edward Burnett Tylor - 1924 - 1004 pages
...to denote which I have found it convenient to introduce the term ' survivals.' These are processes, customs, opinions, and so forth, which have been carried...remain as proofs and examples of an older condition of cul_ ture out of which a newer has been evolved. Thus, I know an old Somersetshire woman whose hand-loom... | |
 | George W. Stocking - 1982 - 409 pages
...tool depended, not on the "survival of the fittest," but on the survival of the unfit— "processes, customs, opinions, and so forth, which have been carried...from that in which they had their original home." It was on this basis that Tylor distinguished between a "law or maxim which a people at some particular... | |
 | Katherine S. Newman - 1983 - 282 pages
...day, the use of "survivals." Tylor (1958:134) described survivals as institutions or practices that "have been carried on by force of habit into a new...from that in which they had their original home" and argued that survivals constituted evidence for social evolution in that they were "proof ... of an... | |
 | Brian Morris - 1987 - 386 pages
...aspect of Tylor's evolutionism was the notion of "survivals," which are, as he put it, the "processes, customs, opinions and so forth, which have been carried...examples of an older condition of culture out of which the power has been evolved" (1871: 16). Thus existing survivals - elements of doctrine or ritual in... | |
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These are processes, customs, opinions, and so forth, which have been carried on by force of habit into a new state of society different from that in which they had their original home, and they thus remain as proofs and examples of an older condition... 
