Cultural Relativism

Cultural Relativism

Cultural Relativism

Embracing mainstream international law, this section on cultural relativism explores the context, history and effect of the area of the law covered here.

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See Also

Civilization; Colonialism; Communities; Cosmopolitanism; Cultural Imperialism; Eurocentrism; Europeanization; Hybridity; Identities; Imperialism; Indigenous Peoples; Modern Imperialism; Periphery; Postcolonialism; Transnationalism; Westernization; World Culture; World-Systems Analysis.

Further Reading

  • The entry “cultural relativism” in the Parry and Grant Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law (currently, the Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law, 2009), Oxford University Press

Berger, P.L.; Luckmann, T. (1967) The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge. Anchor Books New York.
Davis, J. (2008) Culture and relativism. Society 45 (3), 270-276.
Feinberg, R. (2001) Introduction: Schneider’s cultural analysis of kinship and its implications for anthropological relativism. In: Feinberg, R.; Ottenheimer, M. (eds.) The Cultural Analysis of Kinship: The Legacy of David M. Schneider. University of Illinois Press Urbana, pp. 1-31.
Feinberg, R. (2007) Dialectics of culture: relativism in popular and anthropological discourse. Anthropological Quarterly 80 (3), 777-790.
Frank, A.G. (1969) Latin America: Underdevelopment or Revolution. Monthly Review Press New York.
Henslin, J.M. (1999) Sociology: A Down-to-Earth Approach, 4th edn. Allyn & Bacon Boston, MA.
Johnson, T.H. (2007) Cultural relativism: interpretations of a concept. Anthropological Quarterly 80 (3), 791-802.
Rachels, J. (1993) The challenge of cultural relativism. In: The Elements of Moral Philosophy. McGraw-Hill New York, pp. 22-36.
Shone, S.J. (2004) Cultural relativism and the savage. The alleged inconsistency of William Graham Sumner. American Journal of Economics & Sociology 63 (3), 697-715.
Ulin, R.C. (2007) Revisiting cultural relativism: old prospects for a new cultural critique. Anthropological Quarterly 80 (3), 803-820.
Wallerstein, I. (1974) The Modern World System: Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World Economy in the Sixteenth Century. Academic Press New York.


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