How Did Canadian Anthropologists Come to Use the Term Socio-Cultural

question 23

Multiple Choice

How did Canadian anthropologists come to use the term socio-cultural anthropology for the subdiscipline that studies culture?

• A) The term reflects Canadian anthropologists' interest in social and cultural matters.
• B) The term was voted in by the Canadian Anthropological Society in 1918.
• C) Some Canadian anthropologists were trained in the United States,where cultural anthropology was preferred,while others trained in England,where social anthropology was preferred.
• D) American and British anthropologists voted to prohibit Canadian anthropologists from using the terms cultural or social anthropology.

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