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TYLOR, Edward Burnett, Sir (1832-1917):
English "armchair ANTHROPOLOGIST" who coined the term ANIMISM in his book Primitive Culture (1871) to describe the RELIGION of many non-literate peoples. He became the first professor of ANTHROPOLOGY at the University of Oxford in 1884 making him one of the founders of the academic discipline.
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