Postmodernists emphasize
a. solitary research by one ethnographer.
b. the rejection of generalizing and developing predictable theories.
c. a close relation to biology that focuses on cultures as a biological necessity.
d. the extreme etic approach.
e. the local people only, disregarding any kind of global effects.
ANS: B
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