ANT204H5 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Junk Food, Nacirema, Cultural Relativism
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1. ) cultural ways of asking/answering life"s questions, it can call into question the naturalness or truth of one"s own point of view. Anthropology is the discipline that most troubles one"s sense of what is. True and shows instead that truth is usually a question of culture. Culture has the tendency to construct turth in events and then see that truth as something being there previously. The construct of truth might be based on ideas, schemes and practices created by us through whom we attempt to reify our own ideas and practices based on our particular culture. We then deney the making up of this truth and imply it to be universal, when in fact they are completely arbitrary and based on the particular culture to which he or she belongs. This is why different cultures tends to have different ideas. How can studying other cultures destabilize power-knowledge (expose the.
