“Culture or 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.”

About Edward Burnett Tylor

Anthropologist • British

Sir Edward Burnett Tylor was a pioneering English anthropologist, often regarded as a founder of cultural anthropology. He is best known for his influential definition of culture as "that complex whole which includes...