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Sir Edward Burnett Tylor (2 October 1832, Camberwell, London – 2 January 1917, Wellington, Somerset) was an English anthropologist, ethnologist, and folklorist and is regarded as one of the founders of modern anthropology. Best known for his work Primitive Culture (1871), Tylor systematically defined the concept of culture within a scientific framework and helped shape anthropology as an academic discipline. Referred to as the “father of anthropology,” Tylor is recognized for his pioneering cont

Animism is a belief system based on the conviction that all entities—living or non-living difference—possess a soul or vital force. This belief is regarded as one of the earliest metaphysical and religious conceptions in human history. Concept was systematically defined by the British anthropologist Edward Burnett Tylor (1832–1917) in his 1871 work Primitive Culture. Tylor viewed animism as humanity’s first religious mode of thought about nature and characterized it as the most fundamental and p