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In an ethnographic field study of political systems in northern Mozambique, Nicholas Kottak found that avoiding shame can be an effective control against breaking social norms. This example of how shame can be a powerful social sanction
 
  A. is unique among ethnographic cases illustrating the variety of sociopolitical systems that exist in the world today.
  B. is often a key component of the formal processes of social control.
  C. is evidence that shame is a cultural universal.
  D. is an indication that women tend to suffer from the consequences of shame more than men do.
  E. joins the work of many other anthropologists that cite the importance of informal processes of social control, including gossip and stigma.
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