Although best known for her novels, Zora Neale Hurston was also a serious anthropologist. In the 1930s she traveled across the American South and Caribbean recording folktales, work songs, and religious practices among Black communities. Her field notes, recently republished, reveal a methodical observer with formal training in ethnographic methods.
Which choice best describes the function of the second sentence in the text?
- Acheck_circle
It supports the description by detailing the kind of fieldwork she undertook.
- B
It introduces a different novelist.
- C
It contradicts the description of Hurston as an anthropologist.
- D
It defines the term 'folktale'.
Explanation
The 1930s travels and recordings concretize the anthropologist label. B captures this supporting function.