Among the Kapauku Papuans of New Guinea, the fact that an attempt to eliminate warfare (which would create a balanced sex ratio) would affect the practice of polygyny, which would affect the economy (since women raise pigs, and the more wives a man has, the more pigs he can keep), shows that culture is:
a. materialistic.
b. relative.
c. pluralistic.
d. integrated.
e. enculturated.
ANSWER: d
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