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What do anthropologists mean by cultural constructions?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

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What is a symbol?
 
  What will be an ideal response?


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Reply #1 on: Jul 10, 2018
Answer to Question 1

This term refers to the culturally variable ways people perceive social and natural reality and divide those realities into categories.

Answer to Question 2

Symbols are objects, behaviors, and so forth whose culturally defined meanings have no necessary relationship to their inherent physical qualities.


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