Henry Lewis Morgan and Edward Burnett Tylor, Two Early Anthropologists

question 39

Multiple Choice

Henry Lewis Morgan and Edward Burnett Tylor, two early anthropologists, had notably different approaches to anthropological research. In conducting his research, Tylor:

• A) worked from his favorite armchair.
• B) worked in the communities he was studying for years at a time.
• C) applied statistical methods to the accounts of others.
• D) conducted salvage ethnography of Native Americans.

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