Anthropologist Susan Kent notes a tendency to stereotype foragers, to treat them as all alike. They used to be stereotyped as isolated, primitive survivors of the Stone Age. Another common, more recent, stereotype of foragers sees them as
A. peaceful individuals in touch with their inner selves.
B. culturally deprived people forced by states, colonialism, or world events into marginalized environments.
C. ideal humans with the perfect diet and rhythm of life.
D. not isolated at all but living in nation-states and in an interlinked world.
E. primitive survivors not of the Stone Age but of the Bronze Age.
Answer: B
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