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Anthropology is the study of human beings as creatures of society, it fastens its attention upon those physical characteristics

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问题     Anthropology is the study of human beings as creatures of society, it fastens its attention upon those physical characteristics and industrial techniques, those conventions and values, which distinguish one community from all others that belong to a different tradition.
    This distinguishing mark of anthropology among the social sciences is that it includes for serious study other societies than our own. For its purposes any social regulation of mating and reproduction is as significant as our own, though it may be that of the Sea Dyaks, and have no possible historical relation to that of our civilization. To the anthropologists, our customs and those of a New Guinea tribe are two possible social schemes for dealing with a common problem, and in so far as he remains an anthropologist he is bond to avoid any weighting of one in favor of the other. He is interested in human behavior, not as it is shaped by one tradition, but as it has been shaped by any tradition whatsoever. He is interested in a wide range of custom that is found in various cultures, and his object is to understand the way in which these cultures change and differentiated, the different forms through which they express themselves and the manner in which the customs of any peoples function in the lives of the individuals.
    Now custom has not been commonly regarded as a subject of any great moment. The inner workings of our own brains we feel to be uniquely worthy of investigation, but custom, we have a way of thinking, is behavior at its most commonplace. As a matter of fact it is the other way round. Traditional custom is a mass of detailed behavior more astonishing than what any one person can ever evolve in individual actions. Yet that is a rather trivial aspect of the matter, the fact of first-rate importance is the predominant role that custom plays in experience and belief, and the very great varieties it may manifest.
In the third paragraph, the author is trying to______.
选项 A、to be critical of custom
B、to say that anthropology is more important than psychology
C、to strengthen the role custom plays in experience and belief
D、to draw our attention to the importance of custom
答案D
解析 该题属于段落主旨题。根据题干定位到原文第三段，根据语义重心转移信号词as amatter of fact和yet可得出该段中心语义在第三和第四句。“目前，习俗还没有被公认为重要的研究对象，事实恰恰相反。一个重要事实是：习俗在人的体验和信仰中起决定作用。”可见，本段旨在说明研究习俗的重要性及其意义。
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