Question

The anthropologist that conducted a now-classic study of cultural variation in the 1930s was

a. Horace Miner.
c. Margaret Mead.
b. Napoleon Chagnon.
d. George Murdock.

Answer 1

The anthropologist that conducted a now-classic study of cultural variation in the 1930s was "c. Margaret Mead," since she was one of the leading members of her field at the time.

Answer 2

The correct answer is letter C.

Margaret Mead was a cultural anthropologist and used to write about controversial subjects such as attitudes towards sex. In 1935 she wrote a book called Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies that later became a classic study of cultural variation.