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**Humanities &amp; Arts Dictionary**

 
Definition

A methodological position in cultural history and anthropology that explains a society’s cultural traits, institutions, and changes primarily by reference to that society’s unique sequence of historical events, contacts, and contingencies rather than by invoking broad universal laws or deterministic grand theories.