Theodore Waitz

German anthropologist

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In social science: Cultural anthropology
…United States, Adolf Bastian and Theodor Waitz in Germany, and all others in the main line of the study of “primitive” culture saw existing indigenous societies in the world as prototypes of their own “primitive ancestors”—fossilized remains, so to speak, of stages of development that western Europe had once gone…
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