ANT 1101 Lecture Notes - Cultural Relativism, Cultural Appropriation, Enculturation
3 Oct 2012
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The adoption of specific elements from one culture by different cultural group. Society is a group of people who interact. Culture is the distinctive ways of life of such a group of people. Ethnocentrism the very common assumption that our own culture is normal, natural, the most sensible and best while cultures or practices that differ from it are abnormal, unnatural, irrational, and inferior, the result of ignorance or superstition. Cultural relativism is the view that cultures and practices are best understood in their own context, in their own terms, from the point of view of the people of that culture, and the circumstances they are in. Enculturation the process by which a person learns the requirement of culture. Starts from the assumption that people do things fro reasons that make sense to them. Seeks to understand what those reasons are, and why they make sense. Although, cultural relativism can technically be used to usurp any argument.
