E. B. Tylor Parallelism
In analytically overviewing the works of E.B. Tylor and James Frazer, one must articulate what the societal values were in the 19th century progressing into the 20th century as well as the predominating religion in their individual lives. As anyone can assume, the aspects of “nurture” in a societal environment play a key role into shaping the moralistic values of a person as they grow up.
Examining the background of E.B. Tylor, who was born to a wealthy Quaker family in London in 1832, when the outbreak of the second cholera pandemic was sweeping across Europe, Western Asia, the Americas, Great Britain, China, and Japan. With this, he was man who was scholarly simply by the home he was raised in and had seen how when illness besieges an …show more content…
With his philosophical thought on religion, Muller is credited for being the originator of the “science of culture”. Muller, the German, shared views on supernatural with Tylor. Muller felt the key to religion, myth, and other aspects of culture lay in language. Word-parallelism language showed thought patterns of all Aryans to be the same. But when people encountered great powerful working of nature, the Aryans used expressive language that portrayed their emotions towards these natural occurrences and “nomina” (Latin for names) became “numina” (Latin for gods). In this, the people started telling stories about these infinite powerful “beings” using what Muller called “the disease of language”. How he derived this theory on people was where Tylor completely disagreed. It couldn’t simply be on verbal communicative thought processes. It is found within his “Ethnography” and “ethnology” the development of cultural, society, “anthropology”. Ethnology was better than etymology because of the connection between basic rational thinking and social evolution appear in all aspects of culture like the idea of “magic” and
Examining the background of E.B. Tylor, who was born to a wealthy Quaker family in London in 1832, when the outbreak of the second cholera pandemic was sweeping across Europe, Western Asia, the Americas, Great Britain, China, and Japan. With this, he was man who was scholarly simply by the home he was raised in and had seen how when illness besieges an …show more content…
With his philosophical thought on religion, Muller is credited for being the originator of the “science of culture”. Muller, the German, shared views on supernatural with Tylor. Muller felt the key to religion, myth, and other aspects of culture lay in language. Word-parallelism language showed thought patterns of all Aryans to be the same. But when people encountered great powerful working of nature, the Aryans used expressive language that portrayed their emotions towards these natural occurrences and “nomina” (Latin for names) became “numina” (Latin for gods). In this, the people started telling stories about these infinite powerful “beings” using what Muller called “the disease of language”. How he derived this theory on people was where Tylor completely disagreed. It couldn’t simply be on verbal communicative thought processes. It is found within his “Ethnography” and “ethnology” the development of cultural, society, “anthropology”. Ethnology was better than etymology because of the connection between basic rational thinking and social evolution appear in all aspects of culture like the idea of “magic” and