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Garrulous

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Name the five types of cultural anthropology proposed by Alexander Ervin as a continuum from pure to applied anthropology. Make sure that they are named in order.
 
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Compare applied and pure anthropology. List at least three characteristics that they share.
 
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Answer to Question 1

ANS: The five types are basic ethnography/ethnology, studied of social issues, policy studies, applied anthropology and practicing anthropology.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: They share a similar methodology, similar personnel, similar training, and parallel development historically.



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