When1: 1881
When2: 1887
Who: Adolf Bastian [Bastian, Adolf]
What: anthropologist/ethnologist
Where: Germany
works\ History of Ethnology [1881]; Perceived World under Differences of Folk Thought [1887]
Detail: He lived 1826 to 1905. Everyone has same brain physiology {psychic unity of mankind} and has same elementary ideas {Elementargedanken}, so people differ only in culture and history. Societies develop from simple to complex according to laws {genetic principle}, and societies have collective representations and folk ideas. Studying collective representations and folk ideas from many cultures can reveal elementary ideas.
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