Melville Herskovits, who worked among East African pastoralists, contends “the cattle complex” refers to cattle as:

a. status symbols, a food source, and for personal attachment.
b. animal fetishes and a food source.
c. animal psychoses.
d. the “hamburger connection.”
e. an animal honored by that society.


ANS: A

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