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Why is the word primitive ethnocentric?
 
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Distinguish between invention, innovation, and cultural diffusion.
 
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Answer to Question 1

It implies that something primitive is both inferior and earlier in a chronological sense.
There are other terms that can be used in its place.

Answer to Question 2

Invention is a new combination of existing cultural features; innovation is change
brought about by a recombination of existing cultural features; and cultural diffusion is
the spreading of a cultural trait from one society to another.



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