"Tylor's evolutionary anthropology, carried on by such successors as R. R. Marett and Henry Balfour, became the central tradition of British anthropology, but the emphasis gradually shifted from Tylor's concern with bellief and custom to the more tanglible areas of social organization, economics, and material culture."
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Stanley Edgar Hyman
Stanley Edgar Hyman (June 11, 1919 - July 29, 1970) was an American literary critic, jazz critic, staff writer for The New Yorker, and teacher at Bennington College in Vermont.
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