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waynest

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Postmodern anthropology
 
  a. is similar to the cultural materialism because it is an empirical approach.
  b. is wedded to the etic point of view and is considered an extreme scientific approach.
  c. argues that culture should be understood from several perspectives.
  d. aims at the construction of laws and generalizations.
  e. focuses specifically on the development of technology and its effect on culture.

Question 2

Postmodernists emphasize
 
  a. solitary research by one ethnographer.
  b. the rejection of generalizing and developing predictable theories.
  c. a close relation to biology that focuses on cultures as a biological necessity.
  d. the extreme etic approach.
  e. the local people only, disregarding any kind of global effects.



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Answer to Question 1

ANS: C

Answer to Question 2

ANS: B



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