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haleyc112

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on: Jul 10, 2018
If an ethnographer were to do a study of changes that have occurred in the practices of Buddhism over the last 100 years, it would be what type of study?
 
  a. Relativistic
  b. Assimilative
  c. Synchronic
  d. Diachronic

Question 2

Ritual is best defined as:
 
  a. repetitious symbolic behaviors.
  b. practices that invoke supernatural beings.
  c. universal stereotyped behaviors.
  d. the belief in spiritual beings.


allisonblackmore

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Reply #1 on: Jul 10, 2018
Answer to Question 1

ANSWER:
d

Answer to Question 2

ANSWER:
a


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