diffusionist
- adjective
- /dɪˈfjuːʒənɪst/
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difusionista
- In analyzing historical migrations, she adopted a diffusionist approach to understand the exchange of ideas between societies.
- diffusionist approach
Examples
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The researcher presented a diffusionist perspective that highlighted how cultural practices spread across different regions.
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This rather dubious claim of the nonexistence of grid-pattern towns in pre-Columbian America is perhaps the weakest link in Stanislawski's argument and raises serious questions about his diffusionist approach.
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He used this Spanish-Roman-Greek connection, which is well documented, to support his broader diffusionist hypothesis.
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He then proceeded to elaborate on and justify such a diffusionist approach to studying the grid-pattern town.
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Given Stanislawski's commitment to a diffusionist framework, it is little wonder that Kubler's antidiffusionism rubbed him the wrong way.
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Though not fully conceding to his rival's approach, Kubler did acknowledge Stanislawski as the leading advocate of the "diffusionist point of view" with respect to the grid plan.
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In its place, I would argue, what is needed is a comparative genealogy of the grid, in the Nietzschean-Foucauldian sense, rather than a diffusionist approach that seeks to trace the idea of the grid back to a single "origin" and thereby capture the pure essence of the grid at the precise moment of its first conception.
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There are such striking similarities between the leba shay practice in Ethiopia and the use of hallucinogens in the New World that we are obliged to examine the Ethiopian use of hallucinogens for the possibility of a diffusionist explanation.
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His book argues for a diffusionist model that explains how technological advancements can be traced through cultural interactions.
Synonyms
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Spreads slowly through a material, like ink in water
Relating to the slow movement of tiny particles through a material from crowded to less crowded areas
Likely to spread widely, for example news or disease
How Diffuse
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Diffusionist comes from diffuse, which originally meant 'to pour out' or 'to spread', plus the ending -ist. So a diffusionist idea or model is about the way something spreads from one place to another.