English anthropologist born in London, responsible for the creation and systematization of cultural anthropology at Oxford University. Son of prosperous Quaker merchant Joseph Tylor and his wife Harriet Skipper, both members of the Society of Friends, he followed in the footsteps of his older brother, Alfred, attending a school in Tottenham, but at age 16, both dropped out of school because of their beliefs and so began to devote themselves to the business of family. With health problems (1855), he was forced to travel and over the next few years traveled around Cuba and Mexico in the company of ethnologist Henry Christy.
He was married (1858) to Anna Fox, daughter of Sylvanus Fox, of Wellington, Somerset, and they lived married for nearly sixty years. After returning to England, the researcher dedicated himself to expanding his academic training and publishing books, whose texts and research laid the modern foundations of this discipline. He became (1883) head of the University Museum, Oxford, where he was also Professor of Anthropology at the university. (1896-1909) and structured the undergraduate course in Anthropology, a structure that served as a model for others universities.
He was knighted (1912) and died in Wellington, Somerset, UK, aged 84. His most notable publications were Anahuac or Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern (1861), Researches into the Early History of Mankind and the Development of Civilization (1865), Primitive Culture (1871), and Anthropology, an Introduction to the Study of Man and Civilization (1881).
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