Edward Burnett Tylor

one of the oldest beliefs created by man from the Paleolithic age (Hefner). Animism is the belief that every object, living or not, has a soul (Hefner). There are differences amongst scientists on the original concept of animism (Hefner). Sir Edward Burnett Tylor, an anthropologist, believed that “spirits or souls caused life to humans” (Hefner). He believes that native people used animism to understand the causes of sleep, dreams, and death (Hefner). Another anthropologist, Robert Ranulph…