The __________ seeks to understand how and why peoples of today, and the recent past, differ in their customary ways of thinking and acting
a. archaeologist
b. ethnologist
c. ethnographer
d. primatologist
b
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List some of the major differences between British and French colonial policies.
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Much religious and ritual behavior is adaptive. Can you think of cases in which it is not? What does it mean for religion to be maladaptive?
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Knowledge is classified as a productive resource within the economic system
Indicate whether the statement is true or false