An early twentieth-century approach that challenged evolutionism by emphasizing that each culture is a unique result of its distinctive past, which makes cross-cultural generalizations questionable, is called:
a. cultural relativism.
b. indigenous creativism.
c. historical particularism.
d. unilineal evolutionism.
C
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
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a. cultural relativism. b. the comparative perspective. c. the holistic perspective. d. human variation.
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a. ?10 b. ?15 c. ?20 d. ?30 e. ?40