Assignment:
Cultural Anthropology gives three distinct meanings of cultural relativism: a moral stance that requires anthropologists to suspend moral and ethical judgments when interacting with a culture different from their own, a methodological strategy that allows the anthropologist to pay specific attention to the uniqueness of a culture, and an epistemological position that cultures are unique and therefore knowledge about different cultures is almost inherently not comparable. (Sec. 1.3).
In your forum contribution:
- Discuss what you see as the strengths and weaknesses of each of these three kinds of relativism.
- Identify one belief or practice in another culture that you find puzzling, strange, or troubling, and then discuss the extent that cultural relativism is a useful approach to understanding and interacting with the people who hold it.
- Discuss the extent that cultural relativism would be a useful approach to understanding and interacting with people in your own society that did (or do) the same.
- Explore the extent to which whether one is studying in one's own country or in another makes a difference in the applicability of cultural relativism to one's research.
Your answer must be typed, double-spaced, Times New Roman font (size 12), one-inch margins on all sides, APA format.