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The anthropologist Dee Mack Williams, in studying herding practices among pastoralists in Inner Mongolia, found that
 
  A) with the use of irrigation to create new pasture land, the sand dunes were disappearing.
  B) the herders always avoided sand dunes when herding their flocks, because sand dunes did not provide pasture.
  C) since his observations were made in a specific local environment, the conclusions were not useful to other scholars concerned with livestock production.
  D) the herders valued sand dunes as shelters when attacked by raiders.
  E) the herders valued the sand dunes in their environment because, among other things, the dunes helped to regulate the body temperature of their animals.

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Culture, as defined by anthropologists,
 
  A) includes beliefs and customs, but not material objects.
  B) cannot be transmitted from one generation to the next because it is not biologically inherited.
  C) includes learned behavior and also material objects produced through culturally transmitted knowledge.
  D) is studied by cultural anthropologists, but not by archaeologists.
  E) is only found in advanced societies where the arts flourish.



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Answer to Question 1

E

Answer to Question 2

C




dollx

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Reply 2 on: Jul 10, 2018
Gracias!


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