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Which important tenet of anthropology was first championed by Franz Boas to challenge the attitude that Western culture was inherently superior to others?
 
  A) cultural relativism
  B) participant-observation
  C) ethnocentrism
  D) evolutionism

Question 2

Emile Durkheim stressed that culture is something __________ us exerting a strong __________ power on us.
 
  A) outside; coercive
  b) outside; limiting
  c) inside; limiting
  d) inside; coercive



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Answer to Question 1

Answer: A

Answer to Question 2

Answer: A



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