Publicación: On the limits of cultural relativism as a debiasing method
Cargando...
Fecha
2021-01-01
Autores
Editor/a
Director/a
Tutor/a
Coordinador/a
Prologuista
Revisor/a
Ilustrador/a
Derechos de acceso
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Título de la revista
ISSN de la revista
Título del volumen
Editor
Resumen
I analyse cultural relativism as a methodological strategy to correct for ethnocentric biases in anthropological fieldwork. I discuss the format debiasing norms may adopt (rules or standards) depending on whether a discipline has a causal or interpretative outlook. Boas and his school advocated for an interpretative approach to ethnographic fieldwork, in which cultural relativism was implemented as a standard (“Only culturally unbiased reports are admissible”) to be interpreted by expert third parties. Legitimate as it may be as a debiasing method, it does not allow anthropologists to adjudicate their debates on biases in their ethnographic record.
Descripción
Categorías UNESCO
Palabras clave
cultural relativism, boas, bias, rules
Citación
Centro
Facultad de Filosofía
Departamento
Lógica, Historia y Filosofía de la Ciencia