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

The idea of the "savage slot" was not a creation of anthropologists, it was a metaphor adapted to the concept that encloses the idea of a huge differences between different cultures such as the evolution of the western civilizations and its influence from the non western communities. The author also mentions how the evolution of the human race seems to have a trajectory towards civilization behaviors in general at the end of the path.