Krisean Carlo M.

Ongpauco

According to Brown’s Article, Culutral relativism keeps on being firmly related to

humanities despite the fact that couple of anthropologists today support its exhaustive variant

initially expressed by understudies of Franz Boas. An audit of the reformist decrease of the

extent of social relativism since the early many years of the 20th century proposes that it ought

to be viewed not as an extensive hypothesis or convention yet, as a general guideline that when

utilized wisely serves the restricted however basic capacity of keeping human studies mindful of

viewpoints that challenge got truth. The three talking points in discussed in the reading is abou

anthropology, anthropologist and non-anthropologists. Anthropology. Anthropology is the

scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures and

societies, in both the present and past, including past human species. Anthropologist of the late

19th and early 20th centuries, the founder of the relativistic, culture-centred school of American

anthropology that became dominant in the 20th century. Anthropologists, frequently called

cultural relativists, argue that the evolutionary view is ethnocentric, deriving from a human

disposition to characterize groups other than one’s own as inferior, and that all surviving human

groups have evolved equally but in different ways. Non-anthropologists, many of whom

erroneously persist in seeing the work of Boasians such as Herskovits as the definitive

expression of anthropological relativism prevailing in the profession.