10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DIFFUSIONISM»
Discover the use of
diffusionism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
diffusionism and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Colonizer's Model of the World: Geographical ...
This influential book challenges one of the most pervasive and powerful beliefs of our time--that Europe rose to modernity and world dominance due to unique qualities of race, environment, culture, mind, or spirit, and that progress for the ...
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Development and
Diffusionism: Looking Beyond ...
This book makes a strong case for endogenous formulation of development policies and for the reformulation of the Nigerian state in order to make it more developmental.
Another research tradition, which for many years has been seen as an alternative
to evolutionism, is diffusionism. This research tradition focuses on diffusion,
rather than innovation, as an explanation for social change. Strictly speaking, the
...
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The Political Economy of Imperialism: Critical Appraisals
MARXISM. AND. EUROCENTRIC. DIFFUSIONISM. J. M. Blaut. 1. Introduction
The grand old anthem of Marxism, "The Internationale," begins with these words:
"Arise ye prisoners of starvation/ Arise ye wretched of the earth." At the time the ...
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The Building of British Social Anthropology: W.H.R. Rivers ...
RIVERS AND DIFFUSIONISM The events described in the last chapter ran
parallel to, and to some extent interacted with, the emergence and consolidation
of Rivers's "ethnological" period. For it was while he was engaged in writing up
the ...
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Diffusion Processes and Fertility Transition:: Selected ...
THE LIMITS OF DIFFUSION Clearly, diffusionism in anthropology and in studies
of fertility change are distinctly different beasts. Where diffusionism in
anthropology was concerned with changes that take place over centuries,
diffusionism in ...
Committee on Population, John B. Casterline, National Research Council, 2001
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One Discipline, Four Ways: British, German, French, and ...
The debate thus focused on whether functionalism or historical diffusionism was
anti-Jewish and pro-German enough; it started with historical diffusionists' sinister
critique of a functionalist textbook, and it ended with a fierce counterattack by ...
Fredrik Barth, Andre Gingrich, Robert Parkin, 2010
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Slave Country: American Expansion and the Origins of the ...
94 Diffusionism bridged the gap between the extensionists and re- strictionists. It
appeared to provide a way to supply Louisiana with slave labor without
necessarily increasing the total population of slaves in the country as a whole.
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Teaching as Activism: Equity Meets Environmentalism
It is the context for many smaller historical, geographical, psychological,
sociological, and philosophical theories, all of which can be seen as integral
parts of Eurocentric 'diffusionism.' Diffusionism in its classic form divides the world
into two ...
Linda June Muzzin, Peggy Tripp, 2005
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"Black Belt Millennium": Rhetorical Moments in Black ...
The discourse of colonialism suggested a mutually beneficial, though
fundamentally asymmetrical, relationship between discrete cultural spaces. The
framework of diffusionism illustrates how the flow of goods and culture between
the core or ...
5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DIFFUSIONISM»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
diffusionism is used in the context of the following news items.
A man for all seasons: Miguel Covarrubias, modernist and …
Covarrubias was a proponent of diffusionism, the idea that some of the cultural legacy of the New World was derived from contact with peoples ... «Santa Fe New Mexican.com, Sep 14»
Anthropology, Empire and Modernity.
... example, the Evolutionary paradigm contains a number of sub-models, diffusionism, functionalism, structural/functionalism and structuralism. «The Fortnightly Review, Jul 13»
Behind the Atlantis myth: Isn't there any truth?
... archaeology, astronomy, biology, cartography, classical literature, diffusionism, Egyptology, geography, geology, history, Hoerbiger's Theory, ... «DigitalJournal.com, May 13»
World-System Research and Ancient Israel's Southern Neighbors …
... of trade on the local societies' socio-political structures can be easily overemphasized, leading to what has been called a 'new diffusionism' (Renfrew 1986: 6; ... «The Bible and Interpretation, Mar 11»
Scholars swim in choppy waters
(As published in the July issue of the peer-reviewed journal American Antiquity, its title is the more subdued "Diffusionism Reconsidered: ... «UC Berkeley, Aug 05»
