CIVILIZATION, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society. The Family - Page 881924Full view - About this book
| 1872 - 592 pages
...imbued with reverence. 'Culture or civilisation,' says Mr. Tylor, 'taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief,...custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of * ' Primitive Culture : Eosearches into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy,... | |
| John Richard T. Eaton - 1873 - 450 pages
...(TTist. Prim. Cult., I. p. 1) thus defines: "Culture or civilization taken in its wide ethnographic sense is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief,...custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society." 1 See Mr. Tylor, us, I. 24. Comp. Comte, Phil. Pc* n V. 252,257. 3... | |
| University of the State of New York - 1878 - 146 pages
...Tylor, in Primitive Culture, says : "Culture or civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief,...custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society." (Vol. I., p. 1.) This being so, why not face it directly and without... | |
| John Richard Turner Eaton - 1879 - 420 pages
..." Culture or civilization taken in its wide ethnographic sense is that complex whole which inclndes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society." i See Mr. Tylor, us, I. 24. Comp. Comte, Phil. Pos., V. 252, 257. 2... | |
| James Harmon Hoose - 1881 - 148 pages
...of materials, for as Tylor says : " Culture or Civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief,...custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society." Speaking of galleries reminds me to make a suggestion about observing... | |
| John Michels (Journalist) - 1918 - 676 pages
...The book starts with Tylor's well-known and practically perfect definition of culture : " Culture ... is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief,...custom and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society." The point is well made and forcibly driven home that since the science... | |
| John Michels (Journalist) - 1917 - 700 pages
...languages, living, dead and half dead, with taste and manners, and are coming to view it as " that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals,...custom and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society." In this view we are approaching the idea of " Kultur " as set forth... | |
| John Michels (Journalist) - 1917 - 692 pages
...languages, living, dead and half dead, with taste and manners, and are coming to view it as " that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals,...custom and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society." In this view we are approaching the idea of " Kultur " as set forth... | |
| Ontario. Legislative Assembly - 1892 - 732 pages
...those whose desire it is to study civilisation " in its wide ethnographic sense " as " that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals,...custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society." "Even when it comes to comparing barbarous hordes with civilised nations,... | |
| Ferdinand Schevill - 1915 - 74 pages
...—THOMAS JEFFERSON, Correspondence, II. 45. Culture of civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief,...custom and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society. —EDWARD B. TYLOR, Primitive Culture, I. 1. rs N i" ERITF CATALOGING!... | |
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