The Cultural Differences Of Edward Tylor And Henry Morgan

Edward Tylor – a recognized founder of cultural anthropology – believed that region and societal development were universal. Tylor played a large part in forming the basic understandings of cultural anthropology, as did Lewis Henry Morgan. Morgan focused more on the anthropologic cultural variation and the idea of societies at different stages of evolution. Due to these men who invested their time and obtained a mind that understood the beauty in diverse, unique cultures, anthropologic terminology like ethnocentrism and cultural relativity were able to form. Edward B. Tylor and Lewis Henry Morgan attained a way of understanding that set them both apart from the rest of their peers during their time periods. Edward B. Tylor recognized that the natives and many other indigenous people were people of diverse backgrounds whereas every other dominant culture – the French and the European – saw them as …show more content…
Within the context of the early culture of Brazil, a Brazilian sociologist and anthropologist who conducted research on the Afro-Brazilian religion and cultural developments of Brazil in the early 1970s, Renato Ortiz, focused his studies on – as stated in the introduction of his book; Les Religions Africaines au Bresil Vingt Ans Apres:
“…Black Brazilians as creator of culture. In contrast to those who would see in Afro-Americans simply consumer, imitators, or assimilators of white Western culture, and to those who view Condomble or Vaudourne or Santeria … as African survivals, without any living significance and therefore “condemned,” I have had the deep feeling, living among Afro-Brazilians, that they were, like all peoples, not simply imitators or carriers of an ancestral heritage the creators of original cultures that they offer to the world. For they, too, have a moving message to offer, and for the whole mankind.” (Ortiz