Fritz Graebner

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Robert Fritz Graebner (March 4, 1877 — July 13, 1934) was a German ethnologist best known for his theory of the Kulturkreis, or culture circle.

The ethnologist, Graebner, advanced a theory of diffusion of culture (Kulturkreise) which became the basis of a culture-historical approach to ethnology. His theories had influence for a time in the field of ethnology.


[edit] Publications

  • Methode der Ethnologie (Method of Ethnology), 1911
  • Das Weltbild der Primitiven (The World View of the Primitives), 1924
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