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On what basis did Julian Steward oppose Boasian historical particularism, even though he had been trained by the Boasian A.L. Kroeber?

According to neo-evolutionists such as Julian Steward, the driving motor of cultural change could be found in  

Which of the following is true about British social anthropology?

What does the film “The Shackles of Tradition” show us about Franz Boas’s early life and early scientific career?

What do we learn from the film “Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness” about Melville J. Herskovits’s background and personality? 

Sherry Ortner argues that

Michel Foucault, although not an anthropologist, has been influential in anthropology because

Lévi-Strauss’s anthropology is derived from

According to Sally Slocum’s critique

Radcliffe-Brown advocated social anthropology as a synchronic rather than a diachronic science — that is, a study