UNIVERSALITY
COGNITIVE ANTHROPOLOGY
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British School argued that all of culture and civilization was developed only once in ancient Egypt and diffused throughout the rest of the world through migration
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German School of Diffusionism argued that culture traits developed in a few native areas of the world and diffused outwards in to other societies.
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British School of Diffusionism was led by anthropologists like G. E. Smith, W. J. Perry and W. H. R. Rivers
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The German school of Diffusionism led by Fritz Graebner
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Detailed explanation-1: -German School of Thought Believing in theory of cultural diffusion, German diffusionists also touched evolutionary schemes. They were of the view that different cultural complex originated independently or freely, at several parts of earth, from where they imitated or migrated to other places.
Detailed explanation-2: -Fritz Graebner (1877-1934) was a German anthropologist, who was a leading diffusionist thinker. Graebner supported the school of “culture circles” (Kulturkreis), which could trace its beginning to the inspiration of Friedrich Ratzel, the founder of anthropogeography.
Detailed explanation-3: -Types of Cultural Diffusion. There are five different types of cultural diffusion. They are expansion, contagious, hierarchical, stimulus, and relocation diffusion.