eighteen-wheeler
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eight·een-wheel·er
• n. a large tractor-trailer with eighteen wheels.
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Literacy and Literacies: Texts, Power, and Identity.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Southwest Journal of Linguistics; 6/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...nineteenth century anthropologist Sir Edward Burnett Tylor, who writes, in part, that...main source men learn from.' (Tylor 1898 as cited in C&B 2003:9) Tylor's perspective of literacy reflects...
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Aboriginal subsistence whaling and the right to practice and revitalize cultural traditions and customs *.
Magazine article from: Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy; 9/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...increased since. In 1871, British anthropologist Sir Edward Burnett Tylor defined culture as "that complex whole which includes...influence our ideas of what culture is today. Since Tylor, numerous scholars have refined the concept of culture...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 1/2/1997; 622 words
; ...William Kinglake, author, 1891; Sir George Biddell Airy, astronomer royal, 1892; Sir Edward Augustus Bond, librarian of the...Goldmark, composer, 1915; Sir Edward Burnett Tylor, anthropologist, 1917; Sabine...
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The Natural History of the Soul in Ancient Mexico.
Magazine article from: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute; 3/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...assertions are difficult to prove, just as were the speculations regarding the soul by early anthropologists such as Sir Edward Burnett Tylor. However, she assembles a convincing body of evidence to back her claims and invites others to contribute to...
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Expanding world views through traveling.(President's Message)
Magazine article from: Childhood Education; 9/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...anthropologists, sociologists, and educators have given various descriptions to define "culture." Anthropologist Sir Edward Burnett Tylor (1994) defined "cultural" as "[including] knowledge, belief, arts, morals, law, custom, and any other...
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Sociology of Religion: An Historical Introduction.
Magazine article from: Sociology of Religion; 3/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...social scientists and anthropologists: Comte, de Toqueville, and Bergson, on the one hand, and Edward Burnett Tylor, Robertson Smith, Sir James George Frazer, Bronislaw Malinowski Reginald Radcliffe-Brown, and Marcel Mauss on the other...
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Sir Edward Burnett Tylor
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Sir Edward Burnett Tylor The English anthropologist Sir Edward Burnett Tylor (1832-1917) was concerned with theories of cultural evolution and diffusion, and he advanced influential theories regarding the origins of magic and religion. Edward...
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Tylor, Sir Edward Burnett
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology
Tylor, Sir Edward Burnett (1832–1917) An English...x2019;. In Primitive Culture (1871), Tylor contributed to the development of the...primordial form of primitive religion. Tylor was a proponent of evolutionary theory...
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Cultural Anthropology
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Public Health
...diversity of human experience became globally apparent. Sir Edward Burnett Tylor (1832 – 1917) one of the founders of anthropology...and habits acquired by man as a member of society" (Tylor 1871, p. 1, emphasis added). It is the holistic...
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culture
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...useful where no written records exist. One of the first anthropological definitions of the term was given by Sir Edward Burnett Tylor in the late 19th cent. By 1952, Alfred Kroeber and Clyde Kluckhohn had cataloged over 100 different definitions...
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animism
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...or souls) that often inhabit ordinary animals and objects, governing their existence. British anthropologist Sir Edward Burnett Tylor argued in Primitive Culture (1871) that this belief was the most primitive and essential form of religion...
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