PHILOS 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Ethnocentrism, Cultural Relativism, Relativism
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2. included prison of war women in the military (known as the dahomey amazons) were given banners but no weapons to carry, their effect was just to make the troop look larger from far away. But when soldiers approached the battlefield they had to fight for survival; the survivors became ferocious clawing, decapitating, etc. 3. focused on agricultural production for domestic economy. wealth was dependent on size of families, led to people voluntarily being slaves to join family units or buying slaves or having many wives to increase size of family and production. Herskovits observed that judgement claims and evaluations are dependent on cultures i. e. in kingdom of dahomey one can casually say we should practice polygamy and in a majority of america people would say we shouldn"t practice polygamy . > basic normative claims or assumptions of a culture involves the values of a culture.
