Social:British school of diffusionism
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Short description: Movement that believed ancient Egypt was the source of all human culture
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The British school of diffusionism, also known as the Egyptianist school,[1] was an extreme form of the archaeological and anthropological movement of diffusionism.[2] Its main proponents, G. Elliot Smith and William J. Perry believed Ancient Egypt to be the source of all human culture.[3][4] According to this school of thought, due to the inherent uninventiveness of humans, culture cannot have its origin in every parts of the world.[3] Smith believed that only in ancient Egypt were there favorable enough conditions for the origin of the culture, citing the global distribution of pyramids.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Farahmand, Faridullah (2024-05-22). "Spread of Ideas: The Legacy of Diffusionism School" (in en). Sprin Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences 3 (5): 81–86. doi:10.55559/sjahss.v3i5.325. ISSN 2583-2387. https://sprinpub.com/sjahss/article/view/sjahss-3-5-16-81-86.
- ↑ "Diffusionism and Acculturation" (in en). 2017-04-24. https://anthropology.ua.edu/theory/diffusionism-and-acculturation/.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Lowie, Robert Harry (1937). The history of ethnological theory. University of California Libraries. New York : Farrar & Rinehart, inc.. http://archive.org/details/historyofethnolo00lowi.
- ↑ Forde, Daryll (June 1949). "Dr. W. J. Perry" (in en). Nature 163 (4153): 865–866. doi:10.1038/163865b0. ISSN 1476-4687. https://www.nature.com/articles/163865b0.
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