The primary aim of ethnoscience is to:

a. understand a culture from the point of view of the people themselves.
b. identify the universal rules found in all the societies of the world.
c. describe a culture in terms of the categories of the ethnographer.
d. do a complete ethnoscientific study of every aspect of a culture.
e. to understand how culture changes over time.


ANS: A

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