Salvage ethnography is the
A. recovering of an archaeological site that is about to be destroyed by a public building or road.
B. effort to ensure that ethnography remains an important part of anthropology.
C. recording of cultural diversity that is threatened by Westernization.
D. rewriting of an ethnography that was written in the ethnographic present.
E. recording of linguistic diversity that is about to become extinct.
Answer: C
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