Anthropologists' early interest in Native North Americans
A) is unique to European anthropology.
B) was more important than interest in the relation between biology and culture in the development of U.S. four-field anthropology.
C) proved early on that culture is a function of race.
D) is an important historical reason for the development of four-field anthropology in the U.S.
E) was replaced in the 1930s by the two-field approach.

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Anthropologists' early interest in Native North Americans played an important historical role in the development of four-field anthropology in the U.S. This interest led to the establishment of fieldwork and ethnography as important research methods, as well as the recognition of the importance of cultural relativism and the integration of all four subfields (biological, archaeological, linguistic, and cultural) in anthropological study.

Anthropologists' Early Interest in Native North Americans