ETHNOCUBA: Edward B. Tylor in Cuba, in 1856
Enviado por ei en marzo 6, 2010 – 6:50 am
(EC)-It is little known that Edward B. Tylor (1832-1917), a founding father of British social anthropology, began his ethnographic journey not in Mexico, but in Cuba. Young Tylor traveled from Louisiana to Cuba when he was only 24 years old. At an omnibus in Havana he met a man who’d change his life: Henry Christy, a British ethnologist and archaeologist. Together they explored Cuba and then headed to Mexico, where Tylor experienced the intellectual conversion that would set him on a life path to theorize culture “in the ethnographic sense” (Tylor’s words) and in relation to civilization. (More…)
