Talk:Diffusion (anthropology)

Trimmed "diffusion of innovations"
It seems that "diffusion" in anthropology may mean either "trans-cultural diffusion" (TCD) or "diffusion of innovations" (DoI), usually within a single culture. Someone had edited the body of the article to include DoI, but the head parag still mentioned only TCD. I have fixed the head parag to mention both senses. However, since DoI has its own article, I also reduced all the DoI material to a single parag in the head section, with a link to said article. All the best, Jorge Stolfi 01:51, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Split off "trans-cultural diffusion"?
Now perhaps we should move also the "trans-cultural diffusion" material to a separate article, and make diffusion (anthropology) into a disambiguation page. All the best, Jorge Stolfi 01:51, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Byzantine Empire
I wonder what on Earth makes the Byzantine Empire (East Roman Empire) non-European. Since when did Westen Europe (and in times of the late Middle Age that roughly means Italy and France) account for all of Europe. There is something seriously wrong in the portrayal of certain parts of the world. The irony is that this is supposed to be a neutral theoretical piece of text on anthropology, which itself has long been acused of westerncentric.

Pedantry
Use of "decimated" : means "destroyed one tenth of the forces"?