PRIMITIVE CULTURE
FIRST EDITION ----- April, 1871.
SECOND EDITION - - - - November, 1873.
THIRD EDITION ----- December, 1891.
FOURTH EDITION - - - - October, 1903.
FIFTH EDITION January, 1913,
SIXTH EDITION Jungt IQ2a
PRIMITIVE CULTURE
RESEARCHES INTO THE DEVELOPMENT
OF MYTHOLOGY, PHILOSOPHY, RELIGION
LANGUAGE, ART, AND CUSTOM
BY EDWARD B. TYLOR, D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S.
PROFESSOR OF ANTHROPOLOGY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
AUTHOR OF "RFSEARCHES INTO THE EARLY HISTORY OF MANKIND," ETC.
" Ce n'est pas dans les possibilites, c'est dans 1'homme meme qu'il faut etudier 1'homme: il ne s'agit pas d'imaginer ce qu/il auroit pu ou du faire, mais de regarder ce qu'il fait." — DE BROSSES.
IN TWO VOLUMES
VOL. I
LONDON
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, W.
1920 9
PRINTED IN U.S.A.
[Right* of Translation and Reproduction reserved]
PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.
THE present volumes, uniform with the previous volume of
' Researches into the Early History of Mankind ' (ist Ed.
1865; 2nd Ed. 1870), carry on the investigation of Culture into other branches of thought and belief, art and custom.
During the past six years I have taken occasion to bring tentatively before the public some of the principal points of new evidence and argument here advanced. The doctrine of survival in culture, the bearing of directly-expressive language and the invention of numerals on the problem of early …