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daltonest1984 · **on:** Jul 10, 2018

As anthropology emerged from the intellectual atmosphere of the Enlightenment, early anthropologists were interested in explaining the similarities and differences among the diverse cultures of the world.

Edward B. Tylor attempted to answer the question of why societies were at different or similar levels of evolution and development through the explanation of __________.
A. functionalism
B. unilineal evolution
C. diffusionism
D. historical particularism

Question 2

Edward B. Tylor, who published a major book entitled Primitive Culture in 1871, is recognized as the first __________.

A. scholar appointed to an academic position in anthropology
B. person to formulate laws of human behavior
C. scientist to suggest a scenario for human evolution
D. anthropologist to live with primitive peoples in order to study them