Tylor's Primitive Cultural Analysis

In Tylor’s Primitive Culture, Tylor described culture as a complex whole that includes the likes of morals, customs, beliefs, knowledge, habits, and other capabilities that is available to an individual part of a society. From Tylor’s definition of ‘culture’, it is evident that culture holds mental capabilities such as thoughts, behavior such as actions, and it can be learned and shared. Culture, as a whole, is co-exists within an individual in a group (i.g. cultural society) , and it can be debated about to find the ‘ultimate truth’. Tylor agrees that individuals are homogeneous with similar values and practices in order to function within a ‘cultured’ societal institution. Culture is learned and acquired without any signs of questioning there being biological functions, and this is basis of the later evolution of religion. According to Tylor, the nature of primitive religion was based on the unintellectual psychological and …show more content…
This connects into Tylor’s belief that cultural aspects of a civilization can be traced to understand their ‘cultural’ tendencies and of what they have been provided in the organization before they reached a certain level of acceptance of animism and ‘non-civilized’ actions of surviving. The belief in a detached realm of reality that is considered just as ‘real’ as the physical world has objects, death, and hallucination. Tylor brings in the aspect of animism to prove his point of the differences between ‘savages’ and the civilized, however, he does not look deeply into the cultural tradition because he focused more on how people depicted religion and their own behavioral tendencies in comparison with other religions and their