Ferber's brief description of the African American woman, Princess, who performs domestic work for Fannie, reinforces both racial biologism and environmental determinism. |
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Theories of environmental determinism that at their most simplistic equated primitive art with jungle origins have long been discredited. |
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Steward argued against environmental determinism, which regarded specific cultural characteristics as arising from environmental causes. |
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There is even a movement, known as environmental determinism, which emphasises the environment's role in the history of humankind. |
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Roger Pulwarty, for his part, rejects the notion of environmental determinism. |
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The concept environmental determinism served as a moral justification for domination of certain territories and peoples. |
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Like many debates in psychology, this one pits congenital, fundamentally genetic, explanations against explanations that rely on environmental determinism. |
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The brain does not simply reflect the deterministic unfolding of complex genetic programmes, nor is human behaviour the mere result of environmental determinism. |
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Focusing on the unique characteristics of regions and environmental determinism, and emphasizing on the influence of the physical environment on human activities. |
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Geographical theories such as environmental determinism also suggested that tropical environments created uncivilized people in need of European guidance. |
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