ANT 252 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Veterinary Medicine, Moral Relativism, Family Values
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An ethnographer should be more observant than contaminating". They should remain a fly on the wall". Interference should only happen in a life or death situation. It depends on the purpose of the ethnographer being there. ii. Moral relativism is evaluated within groups but never other groups. Tattoos could be looked at by other cultures as an ethical problem, but they are just fine to us. Most cultures do things that are found to be taboo" to other cultures. iii. Doctors should fight to keep someone alive no matter what. Doctors need to be empathic while treating patients to not come off as inconsiderate. An understanding would allow the hmong families to not feel as if they"re culture is being undermined when doctors take action. Both cultures have the best intentions in mind. People don"t know what they don"t know". v.
