ANTH 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cultural Relativism, Ethnocentrism, Relativism
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Unified vision of human life: biology, society, culture. People around the world don"t think the same way we do. We understand things relatively, according to local standards. Avoid ethnocentrism avoid imposing belief system and standards and local understandings on other people. Descriptive telling of a story of people"s everyday lives. Elsewhere anthropologists go elsewhere overseas to do their research where people are clearly different. The other people who don"t do things the same way we do. Going out in the world and trying to make things happen. Ethics: moral principles and rules of conduct, philosophy dealing with values, right and wrong, good and bad. Never told they were sick never treated. People doing experiment were mostly white (john charles cutler) and people being experimented on were black men. City in alabama where slavery still existed and racial oppression was evident. Problem was there was a possibility of treatment. Led by the us public health service.
