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“Critically assess the contribution evolutionist and diffusionist anthropology has made to the discipline”.

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Have a little read: ... "Critically assess the contribution evolutionist and diffusionist anthropology has made to the discipline" Anthropology is a discipline which has developed through many different theories and methods as well as different ways of analysing data used by different explorers, travellers and ethnographers throughout time. The practise of anthropology is one which has foreseen many changes as time did. Two of the areas that anthropologists are interested in is finding the similarities between cultures for example all cultures use language as means of communication with each other. Another curiosity that anthropologists possess is how cultures have changed over time. In view of this essay, these are important aspects to consider because they show how the anthropologists today were fascinated by the same aspects as those from the early 19th century, when the discipline began to develop in terms of it's contents. The evolutionist and diffusionist viewpoints were early anthropological theories, the contribution that they

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