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dmcintosh

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on: Jul 10, 2018
The anthropologists of the nineteenth century believed that cultures transformed over time into more complex and superior cultures. This type of thinking is called
 
  a. materialism.
  b. unilineal evolutionism.
  c. functionalism.
  d. particularism.

Question 2

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.
 
  What will be an ideal response?


lorealeza77

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Reply #1 on: Jul 10, 2018
Answer to Question 1

ANSWER:
b

Answer to Question 2

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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