Anthropologist Susan Kent Notes a Tendency to Stereotype Foragers,to Treat

question 26

Multiple Choice

Anthropologist Susan Kent notes a tendency to stereotype foragers,to treat them as all alike.They used to be stereotyped as isolated,primitive survivors of the Stone Age.Another common,more recent,stereotype of foragers sees them as

• A) peaceful individuals in touch with their inner selves.
• B) culturally deprived people forced by states, colonialism, or world events into marginalized environments.
• C) ideal humans with the perfect diet and rhythm of life.
• D) not isolated at all but living in nation-states and an interlinked world.
• E) primitive survivors not of the Stone Age but of the Bronze Age.

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