Gilbert Herdt's survey of the ethnographic literature leads him to conclude that
A) It is easy for a society to maintain supernumerary sexes or genders.
B) It is difficult for a society to maintain supernumerary sexes or genders.
C) It is harder for a society to maintain supernumerary sexes than it is to maintain supernumerary genders.
D) Supernumerary sexes and genders are never found alongside strongly marked male-female duality.
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