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Definition of diffusionist in English: diffusionistadjective dɪˈfjuːʒ(ə)nɪstdəˈfyo͞oZHənəst Anthropology Advocating the theory of the dissemination of elements of culture to another region or people. the rural sociological literature of the diffusionist school Example sentencesExamples - Unfortunately, the lack of such ethnography has not stopped scholars from attempting to explain away divination by placing it within evolutionist, diffusionist, ecological, or functionalist theories.
- In the same year, the Englishman William Rivers discarded evolutionism in favour of diffusionist theories to explain the historical spread of customs and belief systems.
- Her theories are reminiscent of the diffusionist theories that argue that Native Americans were descended from the lost tribes of Israel, the Welsh, the Phoenicians, the Egyptians, and/or the Chinese.
- Nonetheless, conceptions of Australian science have largely remained bound by the top-down perspective assumed by the diffusionist model.
- It implied a diffusionist view of history whereby high civilization was brought from the Fertile Crescent and then made its way down to the Lower Nile Valley by white or near-whites of the Caucasian family.
noun dɪˈfjuːʒ(ə)nɪstdəˈfyo͞oZHənəst Anthropology An advocate of the theory of the dissemination of elements of culture to another region or people. Example sentencesExamples - He was a ‘diffusionist’, and through his studies he attempted to illustrate how and why similar games appear in different cultures.
- He was a diffusionist, plain and simple.
- Imaginative diffusionists used such similarities to speculate on the origins of the Maya.
Derivativesnoun dɪˈfjuːʒ(ə)nɪz(ə)m Anthropology One of the most interesting points to emerge is a recognition that with hindsight, European radicalism has once again written itself as a form of diffusionism, its sources and impetuses exclusive unto itself. Example sentencesExamples - Intellectually this was a muddle, from ‘diffusionism’ to ‘cultural adaptation to environments’ to ‘post-processual’ symbolic interpretations.
- Without reliving the controversy of the last few decades, it is safe to say that the accurate and devastating criticisms leveled by him against cultural diffusionism and migration theory have not been completely answered.
- The concept of diffusionism, however, and the idea of a historical archetype discernible from distinct and different contemporary practices are increasingly distrusted.
Rhymesexclusionist, fusionist, illusionist Definition of diffusionist in US English: diffusionistadjectivedəˈfyo͞oZHənəst Anthropology Advocating the theory of the dissemination of elements of culture to another region or people. the rural sociological literature of the diffusionist school Example sentencesExamples - In the same year, the Englishman William Rivers discarded evolutionism in favour of diffusionist theories to explain the historical spread of customs and belief systems.
- It implied a diffusionist view of history whereby high civilization was brought from the Fertile Crescent and then made its way down to the Lower Nile Valley by white or near-whites of the Caucasian family.
- Unfortunately, the lack of such ethnography has not stopped scholars from attempting to explain away divination by placing it within evolutionist, diffusionist, ecological, or functionalist theories.
- Her theories are reminiscent of the diffusionist theories that argue that Native Americans were descended from the lost tribes of Israel, the Welsh, the Phoenicians, the Egyptians, and/or the Chinese.
- Nonetheless, conceptions of Australian science have largely remained bound by the top-down perspective assumed by the diffusionist model.
noundəˈfyo͞oZHənəst Anthropology An advocate of the theory of the dissemination of elements of culture to another region or people. Example sentencesExamples - He was a ‘diffusionist’, and through his studies he attempted to illustrate how and why similar games appear in different cultures.
- He was a diffusionist, plain and simple.
- Imaginative diffusionists used such similarities to speculate on the origins of the Maya.
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