A culture has a long-standing prohibition against eating a particular fruit. What aspect of the fruit would an interpretive anthropologist focus on to understand this taboo?
A) diseases associated with eating it
B) rarity
C) occurrence in folklore
D) difficulty in obtaining
Answer: C
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