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This paper revisits the cartography of material folk culture from the point of view of a current cartographic project in science and technology studies (STS) known as controversy mapping. Considering the mutual learning that has already... more
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      Material Culture StudiesActor Network TheoryEthnologyGabriel Tarde
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      History of EducationSouth Asian StudiesHistory of ScienceGlobal History
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      Postcolonial StudiesHistory of ScienceGlobal HistoryPostcolonial Theory
EPEMC offers many new facets which are unavailable in BBC and standard PC/EUC. Furthermore it opens an avenue for diffusionist and catastrophist studies which are more reliant upon classical and modern high energy physics at all scales,... more
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      Electrical EngineeringArchaeologyPrehistoric ArchaeologyMagnetohydrodynamics
As a student of anthropological theory, I have attempted to understand the existing as well as long forgotten theories in the discipline. This is one such attempt where I, in simple student-friendly jargons, have tried to explore the... more
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      AnthropologySocial AnthropologySocial and Cultural AnthropologyAnthropological theories
This article re-examines the ‘neolithic revolution’—Gordon Childe’s great contribution to prehistoric archaeology. Childe first articulated his model of three revolutions in history—neolithic, urban and industrial—in 1936. Many authors... more
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      ArchaeologyPrehistoric ArchaeologyAnthropologyMarxism
The modern discipline of anthropology was born in the second half of the 19th century, in an intellectual climate that celebrated the triumph of scientific investigation and empirical observation. Consequently, evolutionary theories were... more
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      Social and Cultural AnthropologyFranz BoasDiffusionism
Les premières années du vingtième siècle sont fertiles en moments, événements et publications qui, rétrospectivement, dénotent tous la recomposition en cours de la « science de l’homme », comme l’appelaient alors ses protagonistes. Une... more
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      History of AnthropologyHertz RobertEthnographic MethodsEmile Durkheim
If Solutreans came to America 20,000+ years ago with their culture and lithic technology, then it is only logical that they also left their marks and symbols in Rock Art.
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The spatial distribution of folklore-mythological motifs is shown to correlate rather tightly with the distribution of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and Y-chromosome (NRY) haplogroups. The analysis of spatial distribution of folklore... more
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      Mythology And FolkloreMythologyWorld Systems AnalysisWorld History
* This research has been supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (Project № 17-06-00464). Genes and Myths 10 reconstruction of some features of 'proto-Melazonian' mythology brought to the New World by the bearers of mtDNA... more
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      HistoryGeneticsHuman GeneticsAmerindian Studies
Through the content analysis of Matsumoto Nobuhiro’s pre-war writings, the PhD thesis examines Japan’s pre-war academic perspective of Southeast Asia and Indochina. Matsumoto Nobuhiro was one of early ethnologists and one of the two... more
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      Intellectual HistoryEthnohistoryJapanese StudiesInternational Relations
Portée sur les fonts baptismaux par une hypothèse sensationnelle qui laissait augurer la découverte d’une écriture néolithique, la mission franco-belge Métraux-Lavachery à l’île de Pâques tint toutes ses promesses, mais d’une façon... more
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      History of AnthropologyEthnographic Fieldwork (Anthropology)Easter IslandRongorongo script
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      Cultural HistoryAnthropologyHistory of ScienceEthnology
This "Nachlass" is the published materials coming out of Dr Noel Weeks' academic estate. It includes a tribute to Dr Weeks by Siddall and Jackson.
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      ReligionComparative ReligionMythologyAssyriology
Amongst the many narrative strategies in the recent " global turn " in the history of science, one commonly finds attempts to complement the single European story by multiplying histories of knowledge-making in as many different regional... more
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      Early Modern HistoryPostcolonial StudiesHistoriographyHistory of Science
В края на XIX век археологията се оформя като наука, през този период са написани трудовете на Едуард Тейлър -"Примитивната култура" и на Джеймс Фрейзър -"Златната клонка" в 12 тома, които се стремят да дадат обяснение на обществото през... more
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      Diffusionism among prehistoric and precolumbian peoples.DiffusionismTeoretical Archaeology
Through the content analysis of Matsumoto Nobuhiro’s pre-war writings, the PhD thesis examines Japan’s pre-war academic perspective of Southeast Asia and Indochina. Matsumoto Nobuhiro was one of early ethnologists and one of the two... more
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      Intellectual HistoryEthnohistoryGeographyJapanese Studies
Anthropology is plural, not singular, and only a section of its history is decided within universities. A critical re-examination of the work of Lord Raglan demonstrates that retaining an overly academic conception of anthropology... more
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      Intellectual HistoryAnthropologyApplied, engaged, and public anthropologyHistory of Social Sciences
Fr. W. Schmidt is usually associated with the theory of primitive monotheism, diffusionism, and the concept of cultural circles. His impressive attempt to do both Christian apolo-getics and empirical science in the field of ethnology and... more
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      AnthropologySoviet HistoryEthnographySocial and Cultural Anthropology
Resumo: Este trabalho descreve uma oposição entre a História Nacional e a História Geral que gera problemas para o ensino de História, tanto em nível dos conteúdos da cultura local quanto em aspectos macronarrativos. Para tal propósito,... more
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      HistoryEurocentrismEnsino de HistóriaDiffusionism
La teoria del paleo-contatto tra Vecchio e Nuovo continente prevede sostanzialmente che nell' antichità, generalmente tra il IV e il II millennio a.C., gruppi di popoli provenienti dal Vecchio continente si siano spostati nelle Americhe,... more
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      ArchaeologyArcheologiaPaleocontact TheoryDiffusionism
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      Mythology And FolkloreFolkloreMythologyAmerindian Cosmologies
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      EvolutionismClassical Anthropological TheoriesDiffusionism
If the 18th century was the century of the rediscovery of man, in all his varieties, through voyages of exploration and Enlightenment ideas, the 19th century was undoubtedly the century of the rediscovery of Europe, of its deep past and... more
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      ArchaeologyPrehistoric ArchaeologyAnthropologyMarxism
"Come é sorta la Vita? Come si é evoluta? Quante e quali problematiche ha dovuto affrontare? Quanti miracoli scientifici sono dovuti occorrere perchè si arrivasse da semplici molecole chimiche fino a noi esseri umani senzienti? Forse le... more
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      Ancient HistoryOrigins of LifeFuturismEvolution
This article suggests the relevance of diffusionism in discussing the past, the present, and the future of the International Relations (IR) norm diffusion literature. The paper argues, thus, that IR norm research has reproduced the... more
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      NormsNorm DiffusionNorms in International RelationsDiffusionism
C'est en Équateur, pendant une passionnante mission de cinq ans, que Paul Rivet, médecin militaire de formation, découvre sa vocation d'ethnologue. De retour en France, il redéfinit les missions de l'ethnologie, délaissant... more
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      AnthropologyRace and RacismSocial and Cultural AnthropologyHistory of Anthropology
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      Mythology And FolkloreFolkloreMythologyAmerindian Studies
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      ArchaeologyLawAnthropologyAnalytic Philosophy
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      Analytic PhilosophySociolinguisticsSocial and Cultural AnthropologyArchaeoastronomy and diffusionist theory
MYTHS AND GENES: Dualistic Cosmogonies in Cross-Cultural Perspective. Moscow: URSS, 2009 Summary 1. The spatial distribution of folklore-mythological motifs is shown to correlate rather tightly with the distribution of mitochondrial DNA... more
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      Mythology And FolkloreGeneticsMythologyHuman Genetics
This paper examines the beginnings of Austrian studies on ancient Mexico by analyzing the work of Damian Kreichgauer and Friedrich Röck in the early twentieth century. Both argued that a priest elite intentionally “coded” astronomical... more
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      Mexican StudiesHistory of AnthropologyNational SocialismAntropology
Come può l'archeologia essere il riflesso della vita religiosa? Come possono i monumenti antichi illuminarci sulla diversa sensibilità e sulla visione del mondo delle civiltà? Questo lavoro tecnico del giovane Langbehn ci mette a diretto... more
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      Comparative mythologyAntisemitismAncient Greek MythologyClassical Archaeology, History and Archaelogy, History of Greek and Roman Art