Edward Burnett Tylor, Religion and Culture - Hardcover

Paul Francois-Tremlett, Liam T. Sutherland And Graham Harvey

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1350003417 ISBN 13: 9781350003415

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

Synopsis

Through revisiting and challenging what we think we know about the work of Edward Burnett Tylor, a founding figure of anthropology, this volume explores new connections and insights that link Tylor and his work to present concerns in new and important ways. At the publication of Primitive Culture in 1871, Tylor was at the centre of anthropological research on religion and culture, but today Tylors position in the anthropological canon is rarely acknowledged. Edward Burnett Tylor, Religion and Culture does not claim to present a definitive, new Tylor. The old Tylor - the founder of British anthropology; the definer of religion; the intellectualist; the evolutionist; the liberal; the utilitarian; the avatar of white, Protestant rationalism; the Tylor of the canon - remains. Part I explore debates and contexts of Tylors lifetime, while the chapters in Part II explore a series of new Tylors, including Tylor the ethnographer and Tylor the Spiritualist, re-writing the legacy of the founder of anthropology in the process. Edward Burnett Tylor, Religion and Culture is essential reading for anyone interested in the study of religion and the anthropology of religion.

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Review:

Not shying away from the parts that many of us today agree to be problematic, the essays in this collection shine a new light on the parts of Tylor's oeuvre that are worth reconsidering, taking seriously that, despite our advances, we may be more indebted to his generation's debates that we might at first realize.
Russell T. McCutcheon, Professor of Religious Studies, University of Alabama, USA

Tylor comes alive in this elegant and coherent collection. Thinking with, and against, Tylor, an astutely chosen set of authors provide new, and rediscovered, insights into religion, academia, and what it means to be human. It is well worth reading.
Douglas Ezzy, President of the Australian Association for the Study of Religion, and Professor of Sociology, University of Tasmania, Australia

A fascinating and timely volume of essays on an important early anthropologist whose ideas on animism, myth and psychic unity are now being revisited with great interest. Yet unlike other early figures such as Durkheim and Robertson Smith, Tylor remains understudied. This volume redresses the balance through a set of strong interdisciplinary chapters which range from ethnography to cognitive science. Essential reading in Religious Studies
Steven J. Sutcliffe, Senior Lecturer in the Study of Religion, University of Edinburgh, UK

About the Author:

Paul-Francois Tremlett is Senior Lecturer of Religious Studies at The Open University, UK Liam Sutherland is a doctoral student in Religious Studies at the University of Edinburgh, UK Graham Harvey is Professor of Religious Studies at the Open University, UK

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1350003417
• ISBN 13: 9781350003415
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240
• Editor: Paul Francois-Tremlett Liam T. Sutherland And Graham Harvey