Anthropologists suspend cultural relativism when studying the practices of:
a. the Dani who cut off a finger from the hand of any close female relative of a man who dies.
b. the Kikuyu custom of female circumcision.
c. the Inuit custom of leaving the aged out in the cold to die.
d. the Bannock-Shoshoni who commit crimes on the reservation.
e. Anthropologists do not suspend the practice of cultural relativism in their work.
ANS: E
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