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diffusion
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To move culture, you need an array of tricky requirements, from willing early receivers to adapters who will transmute it into local terms (like the singer Ahmed Zaher) to diffusionists who will spread it.
Kuklick traces the development of anthropology as a discipline from the armchair evolutionists of the 1880s through the diffusionists of the early twentieth century to the functionalists of the forties with great precision and detail.
 
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