One of the first anthropologists to provide a definition of culture as "that complex whole which includes knowledge, beliefs, arts, morals, law, customs, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by [a human] as a member of society

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One of the first anthropologists to provide a definition of culture as "that complex whole which includes knowledge, beliefs, arts, morals, law, customs, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by [a human] as a member of society

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one of the first anthropologists to provide a definition of culture as a complex whole which includes knowledge, beliefs, arts, morals, laws, customs, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by [a human] as a member of society was Edward Burnett Tylor.

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Sir Edward Burnett Tylor was an English anthropologist, the founder of cultural anthropology. Tylor's ideas typify 19th-century cultural evolutionism. In his works Primitive Culture and Anthropology.

The first anthropological definition of culture comes from 19th-century British anthropologist Edward Burnett Tylor: he defined Culture as a complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, law, morals, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society.