Although cultural relativism prior to the mid‐1950s was a construct employed by both Western anthropologists and indigenous peoples to resist European initiatives for cultural hegemony, since decolonization, the concept has been appropriated by third world bourgeois‐nationalist elites to undermine pre‐colonial rights of members of various...
Introduction Anthropology is the study of humans, their cultures and societies. It is the study of the others or the unfamiliar, the unfamiliar is made familiar and brought to the forefront by anthropologist. Anthropology is subdivided into four main categories: archaeological, biological, linguistics and cultural....
Cultural Anthropology – a major branch in the study of Anthropology – concerns the study of cultural variation amongst human societies. The need for cultural anthropology in preparing missionaries for cross-cultural work first gained strong recognition at the World Missionary Conference in Edinburgh 1910 and,...
A large banner titled Armenia! currently hanging on the entrance wall of the Metropolitan Museum of Art would be hard to miss if you’re in New York these couple of months. With the launch of its fall exhibition season, the Metropolitan Museum of Art opens...
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