ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Moral Relativism, Cultural Relativism, Relativism

• School: UTSG
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANT100Y1
• Professor: Max Friesen

Document Summary

Universal and particular structures in language and culture. Date: february 28, 2019: absolute values and cultural relativism, moral issues in anthropological work. ); cultural or moral relativism: universal and particular structures in language, universal and particular structures in culture, the ethics of field work, case study: mother love and infant death in alto do cruzeiro, brazil. What is good or evil depends on the culture. Universal (absolute) moral values: believing that these exist is the opposite of moral relativism, cultural relativism allows for moral universals and moral particulars. It is not necessarily the opposite of cultural relativism. The universal levels of language: texts (studied in discourse analyze) - the study of texts, sentences (studied in syntax, words (studied in morphology, phonemes (studied in phonology, phones (studied in phonetics) Language (in universal terms) has these, but they are different in every language.