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diffusionism  

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  • Diffusionism in the social sciences of anthropology and cultural geography is a theory about the spread of ideas, technologies, and practices from one culture to another. Human beings invent things or behaviors. [Source: Encyclopedia of Environment and Society; Diffusionism]

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