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#method-and-doctrine
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If I try to understand a practice from the inside first, have I signed up to relativism?
I teach at a Māori-language school. When visitors come, I always ask them to understand our practices on their own terms before judging them: why we greet the way we do, why the river is treated as an ancestor, why some places…
Started by Aroha Tipene5 replies242 views -
My son’s course says ‘don’t judge other cultures’. Is that a rule for studying or a rule for living?
I farm cocoa near Kumasi. My son is at university and sends me articles from his anthropology course; I send him proverbs back. This week he sent me something on cultural relativism and we argued on the phone for an hour. His…
Started by Akosua Mensah5 replies207 views