Historically, this has been viewed through a
diffusionist model of modern state formation showcasing imperialist and colonialist accounts of history.
Rivet, who believed that anthropology was deeply historical and that "cultures grew by way of diffusion and contact with other cultures" (52), claimed that his
diffusionist approach allowed practitioners to better appreciate the contributions of indigenous cultures to contemporary society.
However, others are based on
diffusionist approaches, of technology or knowledge transfer, to the detriment or in opposition to actions more committed not only to popular language and its participation or mere naive dialogue, but with the possibility of a transformative reflection on the problem situation.
The history of libraries in the Arab world: A
diffusionist model.
Radcliffe-Brown abandoned the evolutionist and
diffusionist diachronic frameworks early in his career and when working in Australia produced a general typology of Australian systems which is still largely in use today.
But first, a warning from Bruce Lincoln's "Theses on Comparison." In one of them the "
diffusionist type" is rejected on the following grounds:
This imprint of
diffusionist reasoning within the notion of passive revolution means that matters are not "just right" in developing a spatial political economy.
Lohse has provided a recent review of these
diffusionist arguments, concluding that the supporting evidence is weak or has been overturned ([1]: 315-317).
Ewan Tavendale is sacrificed to Davies's perversion of Gibbon's intention: far from being a tragic victim of a war machine that represents the ultimate modern manifestation of the evil of capitalism and of what Gibbon the
Diffusionist perceived as the barbarism of civilisation, Ewan is simply a fearty who cracks up as a result of his innate character weakness.
On the whole, these folktales provide facts about Bukusu people's existence-the language, customs, beliefs, hopes and fears and they reflect four traditions:
diffusionist, psychoanalytic, functionalist and evolutionary.
They offer three possible models to explain this diversity: a rationalist model based on variables like size and sophistication, a culturalist approach which might be useful in looking at pole provinces like Alberta and Quebec, and a
diffusionist model, for which there is some evidence.
the originally authentic, and later
diffusionist constitution, is not