Interpretive anthropologists such as Clifford Geertz approach the study of culture as a diachronic phenomenon. functional puzzles. a system of meaning. underlying sets of rules that must be deciphered through the analysis of cultural patterns. distinct from human psychology.

Texas’ gulf coastal plains are the western extension of the coastal plain extending from the atlantic ocean to beyond the rio grande. its characteristic rolling to hilly surface covered with a heavy growth of pine and hardwoods extends into east texas. in the increasingly arid west, however, its forests become secondary in nature, consisting largely of post oaks and, farther west, prairies and brushlands.

The correct answer is connotation.