Claude Lévi-Strauss, in a book entitled The Savage Mind (1966), proposed that __________

A. people in small-scale societies have different thought patterns than urban dwellers
B. it was impossible to compare logical systems of primitive and civilized societies
C. there is a universal, logical structure to all human cognition, regardless of culture
D. the thought systems of traditional, indigenous people were superior to our own


Answer: C

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