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  3. Anthropology Anthropology is the study of human beings as creatures of society. It fastens its attention upon those physic

Anthropology Anthropology is the study of human beings as creatures of society. It fastens its attention upon those physic

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问题                                      Anthropology
      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.
      The 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 anthropologist, 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 bound 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, our own, 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 differentiate, the different forms through which they express themselves and the manner in which the customs of any people function in the lives of the individuals.
      Now customs has 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 inexperience and belief, and the very great varieties it may manifest.  
In the third paragraph, the author is trying______.
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 在第三段中作者意图：A批评习俗；B说明人类学比心理学重要得多；C强调习俗对体验和信仰的作用；D是我们意识到习俗的重要性。
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