Edward Burnett Tylor
| Sir Edward Burnett Tylor DCL, LLD, FRS, FRGS | |||||||||||||||
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| Born | 1832 | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 1917 | ||||||||||||||
| Residence |
6 Boniface Terrace, Ventnor, Isle of Wight [1863] Linden, Wellington Somerset [1865] The Museum House, Oxford [1883] Linden, Wellington, Somerset [1911] | ||||||||||||||
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academic museum work | ||||||||||||||
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Contents
Notes
Office Notes
ESL Council 1868-69 Member
ESL Council 1869-70 Vice President
ASL Council 1863 Hon. Foreign Secretary but resigned 7 Apr. 1863
AI Council 1873 Member
AI Council 1874 Member
AI Council 1875 Member
AI Council 1876 Vice President
AI Council 1877 Vice President
AI Council 1878 Member
AI Council 1880 President
AI Council 1881 Vice President
AI Council 1882 Vice President
AI Council 1883 Vice President
AI Council 1884 Vice President
AI Council 1885 Vice President
AI Council 1891 President
AI Council 1892 President
AI Council 1912-13 Vice President (pp)
House Notes
Professor of Anthropology, Keeper of the University Museum, Oxford
1907 HML The Huxley Memorial Medal this year was presented to EBT on the occasion of his 75th birthday in recognition of his life-long services to the science of anthropology Presented 5th Nov.
1917.02.13 It was resolved that the late Sir Edward Tylor’s subscription received by Bankers Order on Jan. 1st should be refunded.
death noted in the report of the council for 1917
portrait and obit. in Man 1917, 16 by C.H. Read
Notes From Elsewhere
Sir Edward Burnett Tylor (2 October 1832 – 2 January 1917), was an English anthropologist
Tylor was appointed Keeper of the University Museum at Oxford in 1883, and, as well as serving as a lecturer, held the title of the first "Reader in Anthropology" from 1884–1895. In 1896 he was appointed the first Professor of Anthropology at Oxford University. He was involved in the early history of the Pitt Rivers Museum, although to a debatable extent
Member of the Athenaeum club from 1872
Born Camberwell, Surrey; died Wellington, Somerset. Keeper, Oxford University Museum 1883; Reader in Anthropology 1884; Professor of Anthropology 1896. Knighted 1912. Honorary degrees from Oxford and Cambridge. Honorary Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. Wife Anna, née Fox, (qv) also donor to PRM.
Publications
External Publications
1861 Anahuac: or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern. London: Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts. 1861.
1865 Researches into the Early History of Mankind and the Development of Civilization. London: John Murray. 1865.
1867 "Phenomena of the Higher Civilisation: Traceable to a Rudimental Origin among Savage Tribes" (PDF). Anthropological Review. Vol. 5: 303–314. 1867. JSTOR 3024922.
1871 Primitive Culture. Volume 1. London: John Murray. 1871.
1871 Primitive Culture. Volume 2. London: John Murray. 1871.
1877 "Remarks on Japanese Mythology" (PDF). The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Vol. 6: 55–60. 1877. JSTOR 2841246.
1877 . With Herbert Spencer. "Review of The Principles of Sociology". Mind. Vol. 2: 415–429. 1877. JSTOR 2246921.
1880 "Remarks on the Geographical Distribution of Games" (PDF). The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Vol. 9: 23–30. 1880. JSTOR 2841865.
1881 "On the Origin of the Plough, and Wheel-Carriage". The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Vol. 10: 74–84. 1881. JSTOR 2841649.
1881 Anthropology an introduction to the study of man and civilization. London: Macmillan and Co. 1881.
1882 "Notes on the Asiatic Relations of Polynesian Culture". The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Vol. 11: 401–405. 1882. JSTOR 2841767.
1884 "Old Scandinavian Civilisation Among the Modern Esquimaux" (PDF). The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Vol. 13: 348–357. 1884. JSTOR 2841897.
1884 "Life of Dr. Rolleston". Scientific Papers and Addresses by George Rolleston. Vol. I. Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp. lx–lxv.
1889 "On a Method of Investigating the Development of Institutions; applied to Laws of Marriage and Descent" (PDF). Journal of Royal Anthropological Institute. Vol. 18: 245–272. 1889. JSTOR 2842423.
1890 "Notes on the Modern Survival of Ancient Amulets Against the Evil Eye" (PDF). The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Vol. 19: 54–56. 1890. JSTOR 2842533.
1896 "The Matriarchal Family System". Nineteenth Century. Vol. 40: 81–96. 1896.
1896 American Lot-Games as Evidence of Asiatic Intercourse Before the Time of Columbus. Leiden: E.J. Brill. 1896.
1898 "Remarks on Totemism, with Especial Reference to Some Modern Theories Respecting It" (PDF). The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Vol. 28: 138–148. 1899. JSTOR 2842940.
1898 Three Papers. London: Harrison and Sons.
1905 "Professor Adolf Bastian: Born June 26, 1826; Died February 3, 1905." (PDF). Man. Vol. 5: 138–143. 1905. JSTOR 2788004
House Publications
ESL On Buchmann’s researches into some American languages
Photography from Central America
+ many others
Related Material Details
RAI Material
Other Material
British Library, Pitt Rivers, Wellcome, Natural History Museum , UCL, Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum [papers, corresp. &c.]