ANT253H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Regular Sequence, Acculturation
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During second half of last century, famous investigators such as spencer, morgan, taylor, and. Lubbock proposed the idea of general, uniform evolution of culture in which all parts of mankind participated. (reword). This belief was contrasted in the newer development by ratzel whose interest in geography led him and other researchers to claim that ethnological research is based primarily upon the concept of migration and diffusion rather than evolution. Each of these studies is found upon a fundamental hypothesis very different from each other. Presumes that course of historical changes in cultural life of mankind follows definite laws that are applicable everywhere and that cultural development is same among all races. Based on the observation of parallelism of development in different parts of the world where similar cultures/customs are found in two very distant places. They argue that the occurrence of these similarities distributed so irregularly cannot be explained by diffusion.
