While Your Mother Is at the Bookstore Looking for Something

question 13

Multiple Choice

While your mother is at the bookstore looking for something new to read, she mentions that she is interested in learning more about what her daughter is currently writing, an ethnography.The clerk asks for a more detailed description of an ethnography, so your mother phones you asking for more information.Your response includes which of the following?

• A)what physical anthropologists produce
• B)a description of observations about living human cultures
• C)a description of observations about ancient prehistoric cultures
• D)a description of behavioral observations of nonhuman primates

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