“Myth is the history of its authors, not of its subjects; it records the lives, not of superhuman heroes, but of poetic nations.”

Edward Burnett Tylor

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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...

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