ANTH 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Cultural Relativism, Social Anthropology, Ethnography
17 Feb 2018
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Exam format: term definitions (1-2 sentences), short answer questions (3-4 sentences), and longer answer questions (1-2 paragraphs). Culture: experiences that are shared by a people and passed on from one generation to another, including the meanings that people give to things, events, activities, and people. The tendency to judge the beliefs and behaviours of other cultures from the perspective of one"s own culture. To judge another group"s culture by your own standards. The mistaken notion that the beliefs and behaviours of other cultures can be judged from the perspective of one"s own culture (cultural) relativism: The attempt to understand the beliefs and behaviours of other cultures in terms of the culture in which they are found. The idea that it is impossible to make moral judgements about beliefs and behaviors of members of other cultures. Should we accept societies with beliefs such as all gays should die.
