Anthropological fieldwork in recent decades has
a. produced mostly general ethnographies.
b. been more focused on political and social problems.
c. been more problem-oriented than in earlier times.
d. been more comparative, often involving more than one fieldsite.
e. occurred mainly within the United States.
ANS: C
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