<p>in the BB on page 393 number 16 and 21
for 16, i easily narrowed it down to a) or b). the correct answer is (a) but i do not understand how "international crowd pleaser" means an anthropological fallacy. the previous paragraph does talk about a fallacy, but the phrase crowd pleaser makes no sense in that regard.
for 21, i narrowed it down to b, c, or e. the correct answer is b. but i don't see how it can't be c or e, since the sentence right before line 70 states that "that next to nothing, save the evidence of archaeology, can be known of early native american life"
thanks for any help on these two :]</p>
<p>if you read the 2nd paragraph of the native american passage, you'd see that the backgrounds of native americans are being manipulated by others, namely the europeans. </p>
<p>"They were seldom comprehended. Their societies were simply beheld...and rarely robed by the tools of logic and deductive analysis automatically reserved for cultures prejudged to be 'civilized.'" This paragraph is saying that outsiders have this false impression that the N.A.s are a mysterious group of "different" people. Later on in paragraph 4, we see that "NA were, and are, Homo sapiens sapiens...just like everyone else"(34). Here, we have a fallacy. </p>
<p>The crowd pleaser mainly relates to the mysterious nature with which N.A. are associated by the whites. If it helps you understand, think of what we do with aliens. We have all these theories and entertaining movies of our conjectures, our take on these aliens. Of course these are false (most likely). But these are generally amusing and are accepted. </p>
<p>That's my take... but people have told me that I have weird reasoning. -_0</p>
<p>okay.. for 20. From the paragraph, you should get the sense that these historians are like the nazi scientists. They think "next to nothing can be known of early NA life" And "culture-bound by their own approach to knowledge," they will accept nothing else. Now you may ask what kind of evidence are they looking for? well, "evidence of archaeology." This means hard, old, tangible evidence. Everything else IS BAD. What else is bad? educated guess. Therefore, non-tangible stuff = educated guess = what they avoid = b.</p>