Anthropology studies the language of a culture, its philosophy, and its forms of art. In the process of doing research, ethnographers involve themselves intensively in the lives of those they study, trying to experience culture from their informants’ points of view. In this sense, anthropology is:
a. scientific.
b. humanistic.
c. radical.
d. conservative.
e. systematic.
ANSWER: b
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