Cultural relativism

their roots and traditions. However, it has become evident that, with the changing environment, many traditional practices have had to adapt. Climate change is a key component causing this adaptation. Through reflecting upon environmental relativism, and cultural aspects, such as subsistence patterns, economic systems, and religion and world view, it can be concluded that the natural environment influences culture by causing

particular, and the concept of “Enculturation" (we will keep coming back to this concept through the semester) – and the role it plays in creating and maintaining norms. Remember that enculturation is a process (the process by which you learn your cultural behavior) that every single person goes thru starting from

have had to adapt. Climate change is a key component causing this adaptation. Through reflecting upon environmental relativism, and cultural aspects, such as subsistence patterns, economic systems, and religion and world view, it can be concluded that the natural environment influences culture by causing environment-based traditions to mould to external factors. Environmental relativism can be defined as follows: the ways in which certain aspects of the physical environment are relevant to cultures

holds as a norm and are considered to be true and right. It is these cultural norms that connect the individuals of the group, which make up a society. No society can exist without culture and no culture can exist without a society (Giddens, Duneier, & Applebaum, 2002). The two are

The American Anthropological Association Ethics Committee Case Studies attempt to bring light to some of the problems anthropologists encounter in the field while distinguishing what’s is right from what’s wrong. Case two concludes by laying a ground rule for the practice of anthropology which states that before any data is collected one must know who the data is for. Furthermore, case five revolves around the dilemma of anonymity. Afterwards, case 22 directs more its focus towards whether or not

the “Father of American Anthropology.” Dr. Boas did not obtain his degree in anthropology, but went on to help create the four fields of anthropology and teach many of the most well-known anthropologists of today. His contributions to the field of cultural anthropology alone are magnificent, Dr. Boas and his students had managed to completely alter how we as a society viewed race and culture. On July 9, 1859 in Minden, Westphalia, Germany Franz Boas was born. Boaz was from a Jewish family his grandparents

eastern New Guinea and the Kwakiutl of the Pacific Northwest coast. In this chapter, she describes the Pueblo to value abstinence and inoffensiveness and being calm and reserved in their nature, seeking to follow and reinforce the bounds of their cultural norms; she compares the Pueblo Indians with the Plains, and other North American Indians, suggesting they are diplomatic and characterizes them to be prone to illogical and continually testing the boundaries of their existence. In the following chapter

is highlighted. As a good anthropologist should, Evans-Pritchard immersed himself in his fieldwork and attempted to look at foreign cultural values from the perspective of the culture he was observing. While

anthropologists are faced with many challenges during their research. Whether it be their own society’s views that shaped how they view the world, or the backlash their ethnography created or even plain and simple cultural differences. Anthropology tries to account for the social and cultural variation in the world, but an important part of any anthropological project, such as an ethnography also consists of understanding similarities between social systems

Relativism can then be attained, as students become more open to the possibility of no absolute (Koppelman, 2011). Culturally aware students can move up a continuum of acceptance. Tolerance is met when students are aware of differences and minimalization