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pepyto

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Why did Franz Boas call for a moratorium on theory?
 
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Although diffusionism was a very interesting theory that contributed to our understanding of change as a result of culture contact, there were many areas for which it was a weak approach. Name at least four questions that the diffusionist approach could not answer.
 
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ANS: He did this because there was a great scarcity of ethnographic data and until fieldwork and data collection could be advanced and evidence produced, theory was not valid.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: Diffusionists could not locate primary centers of innovation, could not explain the actual process of diffusion itself, could not explain why certain items were diffused and not others, or the rate of diffusion.


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