Smith, GE (English spelling)

Japanese: Smith,G.E.(英語表記)SmithGE
Smith, GE (English spelling)

…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. …

From [Mummy]

… Corpse Phenomenon [Toru Kojima]
[Mummies of the World]
Mummification as a method of preserving the corpse is widespread around the world, around the equator. G. Elliot Smith once published a theory in Migrations of Early Culture (1915) that all mummification was transmitted from ancient Egypt, but no one currently supports this theory. It is true that mummification was practiced in Egypt from the early days of the First Dynasty and played a major role in the formation of the religious culture of death that is a characteristic of their civilization, but it is impossible to give a unified explanation for the distribution of mummies that has spread to the New World.

*Some of the terminology referenced in "Smith, GE" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…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。…

【ミイラ(木乃伊)】より

…死体現象【小嶋 亨】
[世界のミイラ]
 死体保存の方法としてのミイラ作りは赤道を取り巻く形で世界中に広く分布している。かつてエリオット・スミスG.Elliot Smithは《初期文化の移動Migrations of Early Culture》(1915)のなかですべてのミイラ作りは古代エジプトから伝播したものだとする説を発表したが,現在これを支持するものはいない。確かにエジプトでは第1王朝の初期からミイラ作りが行われ,彼らの文明の特徴ともいえる死の宗教文化の形成の主要な一角を担ってきたが,新大陸にまで及ぶミイラの分布を一元的に説明することは不可能である。…

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