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lbcchick

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The perspective in anthropology that analyzes cultural elements in terms of their useful effects to individuals or to the persistence of the whole society is called:
 
  a. Functionalism.
  b. Cultural materialism.
  c. Unilineal evolutionism.
  d. Critical anthropology.

Question 2

Which of these is considered a limitation of historical particularism?
 
  a. The emphasis on cultural relativism
  b. The belief that biological race does not explain cultural differences
  c. An overemphasis on cultural differences and biological differences have little to do with each other
  d. Challenging the framework of unilinear evolutionists



ryhom

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Answer to Question 1

A

Answer to Question 2

C



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