Unlike archaeologists, ethnologists

a. are not interested in past cultures.
b. draw on a database principally of observations and interviews with living people.
c. are not concerned with the ways cultures change over time but rather in the ways they
function in the present.
d. are not interested in culture as a whole, but rather in its constituent parts (institutions, social groups, etc.)


b

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What will be an ideal response?

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