The social and political origins of German diffusionist ethnology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4002373 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Woodruff D Smith (The University of Texas at San Antonio, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1978 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 103-112 |
| Publication date | 1978-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-5061 • E-ISSN: 1520-6696 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/1520-6696(197804)14:2<103::aid-jhbs2300140202>3.0.co;2-g |
| OpenAlex | W2046408859 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
Diffusionism, an ethnological theory particularly dominant in Germany in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, can be shown to have had roots in the politics and major trends of social development of nineteenth-century Germany as well as in a variety of intellectual tendencies. In particular, it is argued that several important features of diffusionism, especially the concepts of Lebensraum, of “colonization” as a natural process, and of the primacy of agriculture in cultural development, in part developed out of conservative political ideologies and reflected the social origins of the early diffusionists in preindustrial segments of the German middle class.
Archaeology · Colonization · Ethnology · German · Ideology · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Variety (cybernetics) · Anthropology · European history and politics · German Social Sciences and History · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · History · Law
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,22 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2023 (21) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |