In "Medical Anthropology: Improving Nutrition in Malawi," Patten notes that some villages were not good candidates for the social research project due to

a. a language barrier between the anthropologists and the villagers.
b. an ongoing problem of animal theft.
c. the elders' resistance to the plan.
d. the resistance of women head-of-households in those villages.


Correct Answer: b

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