Diffusion (anthropology) - Article Index

Encyclopedia - Pre-columbian Trans-oceanic Contact: Encyclopedia Ii - Pre-columbian Trans-oceanic Contact - Overview
Pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact - The diffusionist view. Theories of pre-Columbian contact have been fairly popular in the Western ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Knowledge Management: Encyclopedia Ii - Knowledge Management - The Practice Of Km
Knowledge management has always existed as an informal process i.e. apprenticeships, colleagues chatting, or a parent handing over her/hi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pre-columbian Trans-oceanic Contact: Encyclopedia Ii - Pre-columbian Trans-oceanic Contact - Overview
Pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact - The diffusionist view. Theories of pre-Columbian contact have been fairly popular in the Western ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pre-columbian Trans-oceanic Contact: Encyclopedia Ii - Pre-columbian Trans-oceanic Contact - Claims Based On Legends And Documents
Pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact - Carthaginians. According to the 16th century Spanish historian Oviedo, who relies on Brother Theo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pre-columbian Trans-oceanic Contact: Encyclopedia Ii - Pre-columbian Trans-oceanic Contact - Claims Based On Cultural And Biological Similarities
Pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact - Polynesians. The realization that Polynesians had been able to spread as far as Easter Island by ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pre-columbian Trans-oceanic Contact: Encyclopedia Ii - Pre-columbian Trans-oceanic Contact - Culdee Monks
It is known that Culdee Monks were persecuted by the vikings in the late tenth and early eleventh centuries. The Culdee originated in Ire...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pre-columbian Trans-oceanic Contact: Encyclopedia Ii - Pre-columbian Trans-oceanic Contact - Reverse Contacts
While most claims of trans-oceanic contact are about non-Americans traveling to the Americas, there are a few reports of trips in the oth...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Great Chain Of Being: Encyclopedia - Great Chain Of Being
The Great Chain of Being is a classical and western medieval conception of the order of the universe, whose chief characteristic is a str...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pre-columbian Trans-oceanic Contact: Encyclopedia Ii - Pre-columbian Trans-oceanic Contact - Religious Accounts
A number of diffusionist theories involving ancient visitors are mandated by or inspired on religious beliefs. The Book of Mormon, for in...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pre-columbian Trans-oceanic Contact: Encyclopedia Ii - Pre-columbian Trans-oceanic Contact - Lost Continents Flying Saucers And La Merika
The 19th century saw the spread of several "lost continent" theories such as the Atlantis of Rosicrucians and Theosophists, and James Chu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pre-columbian Trans-oceanic Contact: Encyclopedia Ii - Pre-columbian Trans-oceanic Contact - The Vikings In Newfoundland
The case of the Viking trips to North America stands out as being fairly well supported by both historical and archaeological evidence. T...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pre-columbian Trans-oceanic Contact: Encyclopedia Ii - Pre-columbian Trans-oceanic Contact - Late Contacts
There are many historically-based claims of trans-oceanic contacts in the 15th century — before Columbus, but too late to have had any ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pre-columbian Trans-oceanic Contact: Encyclopedia Ii - Pre-columbian Trans-oceanic Contact - Feasibilty Of Trans-oceanic Travels
The isolationist "dogma" was particularly weakened by the realization that pre-Columbian trans-oceanic voyages were technically quite pos...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pre-columbian Trans-oceanic Contact: Encyclopedia Ii - Pre-columbian Trans-oceanic Contact - Claims Based On Cultural And Biological Similarities
Pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact - Polynesians. The realization that Polynesians had been able to spread as far as Easter Island by ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pre-columbian Trans-oceanic Contact: Encyclopedia Ii - Pre-columbian Trans-oceanic Contact - The Vikings In Newfoundland
The case of the Viking trips to North America stands out as being fairly well supported by both historical and archaeological evidence. T...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pre-columbian Trans-oceanic Contact: Encyclopedia Ii - Pre-columbian Trans-oceanic Contact - Feasibilty Of Trans-oceanic Travels
The isolationist "dogma" was particularly weakened by the realization that pre-Columbian trans-oceanic voyages were technically quite pos...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pre-columbian Trans-oceanic Contact: Encyclopedia Ii - Pre-columbian Trans-oceanic Contact - Religious Accounts
A number of diffusionist theories involving ancient visitors are mandated by or inspired on religious beliefs. The Book of Mormon, for in...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pre-columbian Trans-oceanic Contact: Encyclopedia Ii - Pre-columbian Trans-oceanic Contact - Claims Based On Legends And Documents
Pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact - Carthaginians. According to the 16th century Spanish historian Oviedo, who relies on Brother Theo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pre-columbian Trans-oceanic Contact: Encyclopedia Ii - Pre-columbian Trans-oceanic Contact - Late Contacts
There are many historically-based claims of trans-oceanic contacts in the 15th century — before Columbus, but too late to have had any ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pre-columbian Trans-oceanic Contact: Encyclopedia Ii - Pre-columbian Trans-oceanic Contact - Lost Continents Flying Saucers And La Merika
The 19th century saw the spread of several "lost continent" theories such as the Atlantis of Rosicrucians and Theosophists, and James Chu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pre-columbian Trans-oceanic Contact: Encyclopedia Ii - Pre-columbian Trans-oceanic Contact - Reverse Contacts
While most claims of trans-oceanic contact are about non-Americans traveling to the Americas, there are a few reports of trips in the oth...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Great Chain Of Being: Encyclopedia Ii - Great Chain Of Being - Other Subdivisions
Each link in this chain might be further divided into its component parts. In terms of secular humanity, for example, the King is usually...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Great Chain Of Being: Encyclopedia Ii - Great Chain Of Being - Diagram
The purpose of the Great Chain of Being was to assign a place for everything in the universe, classified into either: Holy Animal Vege...   » Read the article