When the Tiv informed Laura Bohannan that she must be wrong about Hamlet's father's ghost because the dead cannot talk,they displayed what anthropologists call
A) culture shock.
B) naive realism.
C) tacit culture.
D) cross-cultural solidarity.

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The Tiv's belief that the dead cannot talk is an example of naive realism, which is the tendency to believe that one's own worldview is the only correct one and that others' perspectives are incorrect or naive. The Tiv are assuming that everyone shares their belief that the dead cannot communicate, and therefore they dismiss Bohannan's account of Hamlet's father's ghost as impossible.

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