Perry, WJ

Japanese: Perry,W.J.(英語表記)PerryWJ
Perry, WJ

…In the history of ethnology, diffusionism became popular in the early 20th century as a criticism of evolutionism in the late 19th century. There are various schools of thought on this subject, and at the extreme end is the theory of British scholars Grafton Elliot Smith and William James Perry, who claim that ancient Egypt was the sole source of world civilization, and that the solar megalithic culture spread from there to the rest of the world (heliocentrism). The so-called cultural sphere theory of Germany and Austria is also often called diffusionism. …

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…民族学の歴史においては,19世紀後半における進化主義への批判として,20世紀初頭には伝播主義が盛んとなった。これにはさまざまな学派があり,その極端なものとしては,古代エジプトに世界の文明の唯一の源泉があり,ここから太陽巨石文化が世界中に広がっていったとするイギリスのスミスGrafton Elliot SmithやペリーWilliam James Perryの説がある(ヘリオセントリズムHeliocentrism)。ドイツやオーストリアのいわゆる文化圏説もしばしば伝播主義と呼ばれる。…

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