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Tylorian, a.|taɪˈlɔːrɪən|
Also Tylorean.
[f. the name of Sir Edward Tylor (1832–1917), English anthropologist + -ian.]
Of, pertaining to, or designating the anthropological theories of Tylor, esp. his doctrine that customs and institutions may be interpreted as survivals from some earlier evolutionary stage.
1936M. T. Hodgen Doctrine of Survivals iii. 74 The origin of the family, with its affiliated institutions, was the first to be recovered by an appeal to Tylorean presuppositions. 1941H. J. Massingham Remembrance vi. 57 The Tylorian hypothesis is now dead. 1968M. Harris Rise Anthropol. Theory (1969) vii. 204 The theoretical product of Frazer's monumental effort..consists in a further confirmation of the Tylorian view of modern religion as a natural growth from primitive antecedents. 1987M. Herzfeld Anthropol. through Looking-glass iii. 73 Folklorist-travellers like Theodore Best and Rennell Rodd invented the Tylorean formula, regarding Classical survivals as evidence of a ‘high culture’ rather than of a more primitive era. |