Edward Burnett Tylor made a career in science at a time when the terms of that career were still being set.
The record lists Edward Burnett Tylor as English anthropologist (1832–1917).
Edward Burnett Tylor was born at Camberwell in 1832. His recorded nationality is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
The nineteenth century professionalised nearly everything: salaried posts, formal training, and audiences large enough to sustain a career.
He worked as anthropologist, writer and sociologist.
His affiliations include University of Seville and University of Oxford.
Among his principal works are Quetelet on the Science of Man and Primitive culture. Science advances when somebody insists on measuring what everyone else assumed.
His recorded fields of work are anthropology.
His work was formally recognised with the Fellow of the Royal Society.
Working from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have him, the language the work first appeared in.
Edward Burnett Tylor died in 1917, aged 85. What survives is the work, which is the only durable form of a reputation.
Achievements
- Notable work: Quetelet on the Science of Man
- Notable work: Primitive culture
- Affiliated with University of Seville and University of Oxford
- Worked as anthropologist, writer and sociologist
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