Multiple Choice
Anthropologist Clifford Geertz defined culture as ideas based on cultural learning and symbols.For anthropologist Leslie White,culture originated when our ancestors acquired the ability to use symbols.What is a symbol?
A) a distinctive or unique cultural trait, pattern, or integration that can be translated into other cultures
B) any element within a culture that distinguishes it from other cultures, precisely because it is difficult to translate
C) something verbal or nonverbal, within a particular language or culture, that comes to stand for something else, with no necessary or natural connection to the thing for which it stands
D) a linguistic sign within a particular language that comes to stand for something else in another language
E) something verbal or nonverbal with a non-arbitrary association with what it symbolizes
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