A Major Catalyst to the Adoption of a Code of Ethics

question 75

Multiple Choice

A major catalyst to the adoption of a code of ethics by the American Anthropological Association was __________.

• A)the decline of small, isolated populations and increase in research in "modern" cultures
• B)the increasing proportion of anthropologists from non-Western cultures who supported a code of ethics
• C)World War II
• D)the Vietnam-American War
• E)the realization that "native" peoples were learning to read and would be able to comment on anthropological writings

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