When1: 1861
When2: 1881
Who: Edward Burnett Tylor [Tylor, Edward Burnett]
What: anthropologist
Where: England
works\ Anahuac or Anahuac Civilization of Mexico [1861: Mexica was last Anahuac civilization, 1325 to 1521]; Researches into the Early History of Mankind and the Development of Civilization [1865]; Primitive Culture [1871]; Anthropology [1881]
Detail: He lived 1832 to 1917, studied folklore and societies {ethnology, Tylor} {ethnography, Tylor}, and founded social anthropology. All humans have same mind type.
Religion is superstition and belief in spiritual beings or persons {animism, Tylor}. People see difference between living and death, sleep, or trance and have dreams and visions of people and other living things, so they think everything has a living soul, which can be independent of body.
Evil spirits can enter bodies. One spirit can become supreme. Magic and myth require narrative with rational associations. Rational culture improves over time, but ancient superstitions still survive.
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