ANTH 195 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cultural Relativism, Cockfight, Ethnocentrism
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A story of people tell themselves about themselves. A man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun, [and] i take culture to be those webs . Ethnocentric fallacy- something is wrong, have to put a stop to it. Relativistic fallacy (absolute cultural relativism)-look into culture in context and excuse it; if no universal standard exists, we should not judge any behaviors as good or bad. A realm of justice & morality beyond & superior to nations, cultures, religions.
