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jjjetplane

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Lewis Henry Morgan was a lawyer and banker of the late nineteenth century whose principal scholarship in anthropology was concerned with __________.
 
  A. human physical variation
  B. systems of human kinship
  C. language acquisition
  D. archaeology of the American Indians

Question 2

Edward B. Tylor and other eighteenth-century thinkers asserted that primitives around the world would eventually evolve through the stages of barbarism to become civilized like Europeans,
 
  but that these primitives would need some help from the civilized world to reach this ultimate, ideal stage. This perception that Western society is the center of the civilized world and that non-Western societies are inherently inferior is called __________.
  A. logical negativism
  B. logical positivism
  C. ethnocentrism
  D. devolution



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Answer to Question 1

Answer: B

Answer to Question 2

Answer: C



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