Faasino i le vaega o loo i lalo ma tali le fesili mulimuli ane i le gagana lava lea e tasi e pei o le vaega:  Faamatalaga: O le uluaʻi lomiga a Tylor, o se taunuuga o lana malaga i Mekisikō ma Christy i le 1856. O ana faamatalaga e faatatau i talitonuga ma faiga a tagata na ia feiloaʻi i ai, na faavae ai lana tusi Anahuac: Or Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern (1861), lea na lomia ina ua ia toe foʻi i Egelani. Sa faaauau pea ona suʻesuʻeina e Tylor tū ma talitonuga a nuu o ituaiga, o ē sa iai muamua ma ē na soifua i aso anamua (e faavae i mea na maua i suʻesuʻega o mea mai anamua). Na ia lomia lana tusi lona lua, o le Researches into the Early History of Mankind and the Development of Civilization, i le 1865. Na sosoo ai ma lana galuega na sili ona telē lona aafiaga, o le Primitive Culture (1871). E tāua lenei mea, e lē gata ona o le suʻesuʻeina māeʻaeʻa o aganuu a tagata ma le sao na faia i le vaega fou o le anthropology, ae ona o lona aafiaga e lē mafai ona faafitia i se vaega toʻaitiiti o tagata atamamai talavou, e pei o J. G. Frazer, o ē na avea ma soo o Tylor ma sa tele foʻi lo latou sao i le suʻesuʻega faasaienisi o le anthropology i tausaga mulimuli ane.  Fesili: O le ā le tausaga na lomia ai le tusi Primitive Culture?
Tausaga 1871