When the Tiv informed Laura Bohannan that she must be wrong about Hamlet's father's ghost because the dead cannot talk, they displayed what anthropologists call

a. culture shock.
b. naive realism.
c. tacit culture.
d. cross cultural solidarity.


Correct Answer: b

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