Definition & Meaning | English word DIFFUSIONISM
DIFFUSIONISM
Definitions of DIFFUSIONISM
- (archaeology) The belief that changes in one culture are caused by diffusion of ideas from another.
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12
Is palindrome
No
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Examples of Using DIFFUSIONISM in a Sentence
- The term migrationism, in the history of archaeological theory, was opposed to the term diffusionism (or "immobilism") as a means of distinguishing two approaches to explaining the spread of prehistoric archaeological cultures and innovations in artefact.
- Throughout his academic career, he went through three stages: an initial period characterized by his adherence to diffusionism, during which he mainly conducted research in physical anthropology (raciology) and archaeology; a second stage, beginning in 1956, where he introduced Ethnology while still conducting archaeological research, now in the San Matías Gulf coast in the Río Negro Province; and a third stage, towards the late 1960s, in which he experimented with phenomenology and founded what he referred to as tautegorical ethnology.
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