ANTH 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Participant Observation, Ethnography, Modernism
10 Mar 2016
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Our job is to understands things culturally one out of many ways of living. Anthropology is comparative, a self-critique (cultural relativism no stable grounds to judge people on what they do in their society, because our judgements are cultural) cultural relativism can be mistaken as natural. Everything that is an interest of humans is a product of their culture. The natural point of (cid:448)ie(cid:449) is that (cid:894)i(cid:374) our so(cid:272)iety(cid:895), i(cid:374) a(cid:374)other so(cid:272)iety, their poi(cid:374)t of (cid:448)ie(cid:449) is . Our point of view is therefore wrong, meaningless. Social construction: realities that are socially constructed and are a product of the social context in which we live. Moral relativism: philosophical positions concerned with the differences in moral judgments across different people and cultures. They both try to ground anthropology as they both see that it is dangerously ungrounded. He tries to do it in a scientific method, natural framework.
