It is believed to have originated in South America in the early 1900s, and later spread to Europe before crossing over to sub-Saharan Africa.

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Also in the early 1900s, French sociologist Emile Durkheim developed a theory of culture that would greatly influence anthropology.

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But a number of anthropologists in the early 1900s also rejected the particularist theory of culture in favor of diffusionism.

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In the early 1900s in North America, German-born American anthropologist Franz Boas developed a new theory of culture known as historical particularism.

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