This chapter's survey of the major theoretical perspectives that have characterized anthropology highlights all of the following EXCEPT

A. a continuous concern with how to define and study culture.
B. the theoretical and methodological shift from complexity to models that simplify human diversity.
C. a continuous concern with scientific fundamentals and whether or not anthropology's research subject is best studied scientifically.
D. attention to whether or not anthropological data ought to be comparative across time and space.
E. the discipline's profound commitment to understanding human diversity.


Answer: B

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