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jparksx

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Franz Boas argued that the discipline of anthropology needed:
 
  a. the careful collection of empirical data on as many specific cultures as possible.
  b. the development of complex theory to guide fieldworkers.
  c. theory that clarified how contact with other people was the single most important factor in shaping anysociety's culture.
 d. theory that emphasized the environment as the single factor determining a culture.
  e. theory that focused on geography as the major cause of cultural complexity.

Question 2

American historicism was developed by:
 
  a. Melville J. Herskovits.
  b. Claude LviStrauss.
  c. Ruth Behar.
  d. Franz Boas.
  e. Bronislaw Malinowski.



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Answer to Question 1

a

Answer to Question 2

d



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