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Edward Burnett Tylor
Sir Edward Burnett Tylor was an English anthropologist, and professor of anthropology.
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culture · English anthropologist (1832–1917) · anthropologist · archaeologist · writer · sociologist · ethnologist · university teacher · religious studies scholar · also Edward Burnett Tylor, E. B. Tylor, E. B. T., Sir Edward Burnett Tylor, Edward B. Tylor, Edward Burnet Tyler
Born 2 October 1832 · Died 2 January 1917 · Q141037
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1917· 1 entry
Died 1917-01-02.
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1896· 1 entry
Was appointed the first Professor of Anthropology at Oxford University
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1883· 1 entry
And, as well as serving as a lecturer, held the title of the first "Reader in Anthropology" from 1884 to 1895
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1881· 1 entry
Tylor published a work he called Anthropology, one of the first under that name
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1871· 1 entry
Tylor published Primitive Culture, becoming the originator of cultural anthropology
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1832· 2 entries
Born 1832-10-02.
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In Camberwell, London, the son of Joseph Tylor and Harriet Skipper, part of a family of wealthy Quakers who owned a London brass factory
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1721· 1 entry
“Letter to a Young Gentleman, Lately Enter’d Into Holy Orders by a Person of Quality”
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