The text quotes michel-rolph trouillot, who claims that as the social sciences were becoming established at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century, anthropology was assigned the "savage slot." what does he mean by that?

a) early anthropologists were very difficult to deal with in universities
b) it’s a metaphor for the way the categories of the social sciences were set up to cover the different categories of peoples and topics scholars thought relevant at the time.
c) anthropologists became the experts on the societies that were being colonized by european countries andthe united states.
d) both b and c