MinglesPrepPassage: Long-running ethnographies of a community's elders had documented in…
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Passage: Long-running ethnographies of a community's elders had documented in detail the rituals surrounding birth. When the ethnographers' successors returned a generation later, the rituals appeared unchanged in form — though their meanings, the new fieldworkers found, had shifted in ways the older texts could not have anticipated. The passage primarily argues that:
- A.stable form can mask shifting meaning
- B.meaning never changes
- C.rituals always change in form
- D.ethnographies are unreliable