“History, so far as it reaches back, shows arts, sciences, and political institutions beginning in ruder states, and becoming in the course of ages more intelligent, more systematic, more perfectly arranged or organized, to answer their purposes.”

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...