Why Has Anthropology Only Recently Appeared as a Distinct Field

question 79

Multiple Choice

Why has anthropology only recently appeared as a distinct field of inquiry?

• A) Only in the past two centuries have people been interested in their own origins and in people different from themselves.
• B) Previously,most people did not have access to adequate means of travel and communication necessary for studying distant cultures.
• C) The Bible strictly prohibited the study of diverse groups of people.
• D) European explorers only wished to dominate the peoples they encountered.

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