The symbolic nature of culture:
a. Facilitates cross-cultural communication, because all cultures use the same (or very similar) symbols to mean the same things.
b. Can create considerable misunderstanding between people from different cultures.
c. Is now known to be not as significant as anthropologists once believed.
d. Is easily discernable from the archaeological record.
e. Does not affect the material traces of behavior.
b
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