Anthropology 4400E Chapter Notes - Chapter online reading: Cultural Relativism, Ethnoscience, Ethnocentrism

• School: Western University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: Anthropology 4400E
• Professor: Dan Jorgensen

Document Summary

Anthro 4400 nov 27 reading in the name of culture: cultural relativism and the abuse of the individual . Cultural relativism, multiculturalism etc undermining universal human rights that attest that all human beings regardless of their culture or any other facts have the same rights. Many believe these universal human rights do not conform to the complexity of cultural and religious sects in the world and should be on a local level. United nations declaration of human rights founded on beliefs that: (1) no state can be entrusted with an absolute power over its own citizens because of the tendency of states to abuse absolute power; (2) an international regime of human rights protection is needed to protect individuals against states and other supralevel organizations; (3) all individuals are entitled, by virtue of their common humanity, to a basic modicum of human dignity;