British school of diffusionism

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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 ,illiam J. Perryncient 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 where there were favorable enough conditions for the origin of the culture, citing the global distribution of pyramids. [1]

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  1. 1 2 Farahmand, Faridullah (2024-05-22). "Spread of Ideas: The Legacy of Diffusionism School". Sprin Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. 3 (5): 81–86. doi:10.55559/sjahss.v3i5.325. ISSN   2583-2387.
  2. ↑ "Diffusionism and Acculturation". Anthropology. 2017-04-24. Retrieved 2025-09-30.
  3. 1 2 Lowie, Robert Harry (1937). The history of ethnological theory. University of California Libraries. New York : Farrar & Rinehart, inc.
  4. ↑ Forde, Daryll (June 1949). "Dr. W. J. Perry". Nature. 163 (4153): 865–866. doi:10.1038/163865b0. ISSN   1476-4687.


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