(1861), published after his return to England. From then on Tylor published on the subject of how “primitive” peoples’ traditions continued to hold sway even in much later stages of development. Tylor’s most influential work is Primitive Culture (1871). Here and in subsequent writings he set forth the idea that culture is, as it were, adjectival. A people could strive to be “cultured.” People all passed through various stages in an evolutionary development from the primitive to the scientific. Tylor