The author of the passage puts the word "savage" and "b...
A．signal his reservations about the way these terms have been used to define geography through human categories
B．draw attention to the discrepancies between the way historiographers treat the supra-national and sub-national levels
C．emphasize historiography's unique tendency to rely upon social categories to draw geographic distinctions
D．question the notion of the spatial marker itself by asserting the general ambiguity of these terms
E．argue for the replacement of these terms by historiographers with more politically correct substitutes
