The text quotes michel-rolph trouillot, who claims that as the social sciences were becoming established at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century, anthropology was assigned the "savage slot." what does he mean by that?

a) early anthropologists were very difficult to deal with in universities
b) it’s a metaphor for the way the categories of the social sciences were set up to cover the different categories of peoples and topics scholars thought relevant at the time.
c) anthropologists became the experts on the societies that were being colonized by european countries andthe united states.
d) both b and c

The correct answer is:

D) Both B and C

Explanation:

The idea of the "savage slot" was not a creation of anthropologists, it was a metaphor adapted to the concept that encloses the idea of a huge differences between different cultures such as the evolution of the western civilizations and its influence from the non western communities. The author also mentions how the evolution of the human race seems to have a trajectory towards civilization behaviors in general at the end of the path.

as university of miami psychologists debra lieberman and adam smith pointed out in a recent article in the journal current directions in psychological science, humans have social and psychological mechanisms to deter incest. with very few exceptions, marriages between brothers and sisters and between parents and their children are verboten in every human culture. the primary psychological anti-incest mechanism is the yuck response. even the idea of sex with their mom or dad, bro or sis is upsetting to most people. the psychologist jonathan haidt has found that nearly everyone is repelled by the prospect of brother-sister sex, even in hypothetical situations in which there is no chance of pregnancy).

the biological cost of incest

this raises an interesting question: just what’s so bad about incest? sure, having sex with your dad or your sister seems gross — but why? some anthropologists have argued that incest taboos are learned social conventions. this explanation, however, doesn’t make sense to me as it does not explain the widespread existence of anti-incest mechanisms in creatures ranging from cockroaches to chimpanzees. second, the incest taboo is about as close to a universal law as human moral rules get.

why should mechanisms to avoid incest be so widespread both in nature and across human societies? the answer is simple. the problem with having sex close with relatives is that there is an astonishingly high chance that your offspring will be born with a serious birth defect.

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