If People, Practices, or Artifacts Could Move Across Social Boundaries

question 21

Multiple Choice

If people, practices, or artifacts could move across social boundaries in the ways that Boas and his students showed, then this suggested that

• A) The boundaries around societies were not impermeable.
• B) The supposedly firm boundaries around biological "races" were vulnerable to critique.
• C) Any particular association of linguistic and cultural practices with a particular human population was an artifact of history.
• D) All of the above.

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