Which of the following correctly characterizes the Hopi growing of blue corn?
a. When they farm blue corn, they live their religious understanding of the world.
b. They have mixed feelings when they grow blue corn because, though it is necessary to make traditional foods, it is associated with impurity and evil.
c. Only women can grow blue corn, because only women possess generative earth powers.
d. Hopi look down upon those who grow blue corn, because it represents both poverty and old-fashioned values.
e. Hopi spend little time growing corn but much time growing beans, because corn has little religious significance.
A
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