How long does it take to read Primitive Culture?
Edward B. Tylor, Edward Burnett Tylor
Primitive Culture by Edward B. Tylor, Edward Burnett Tylor takes about 4 hours 38 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 38 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1871. 253 pages, about 69,575 words.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 44 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 38 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 54 minutes |
The page count is the median across 27 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Edward Burnett Tylor (1832–1917) was an English anthropologist who is widely considered the founder of anthropology as a scientific discipline. He was the first Professor of Anthropology at the University of Oxford from 1896 to 1909, and developed a broad definition of culture which is still used by scholars. First published in 1871, this classic work explains Tylor's idea of cultural evolution in relation to anthropology, a social theory which states that human cultures invariably change over time to become more complex. Unlike his contemporaries, Tylor did not link biological evolution to cultural evolution, asserting that all human minds are the same irrespective of a society's state of evolution. His book was extremely influential in popularising the study of anthropology and establishing cultural evolution as the main theoretical framework followed by anthropologists in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Volume 1 focuses on social evolution, language and myth.
Subjects: Animism, Civilization, Mythology, History, Ethnology, Religion
