Anthropologists doing fieldwork typically involve themselves in many different experiences. They try to investigate not just one aspect of culture (such as the political system) but how all aspects relate to each other (for example, how the political system fits with economic institutions, religious beliefs, etc.). This perspective is called:

a. holism.
b. ethnology.
c. comparison.
d. participation.
e. culture-boundedness.


ANSWER: a

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