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By Sir Edward Burnett Tylor. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1958. 431 pp.
RELIGION IN PRIMITIVE CULTURE [Part II of PRIMITIVE CULTURE.] By Sir Edward Burnett Tylor. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1958. 554 pp.
Readers who are over forty may recall that, in the English-speaking world at least, the word 'Victorian' had a distinctly pejorative quality during their youth. Happily, the 'sawdust Caesars' and the intellectual charlatans of the twentieth century have already achieved, or are rapidly achieving, a well-deserved oblivion; and it is refreshing indeed to return to the work of an eminent Victorian, Sir Edward B. Tylor.
These two volumes are a reissue, in paperbacks, with unnecessarily dichotomized titles, of Tylor's Primitive Culture (1871), a classic