Cultural Relativism

Question 1

Cultural Relativism

Answer 1

Not judging a culture based on what you think is right, wrong or normal

Question 2

Ethnocentrism

Answer 2

Judging a culture against your own and viewing it negatively
- thinking your culture is the best

Question 3

summary of trapped in a zoo

Answer 3

• Inuit people were physically studied
• Smallpox began to spread, and there was no possible cure or effort in treatment for them at this time
• Despite the amount of deaths and illnesses, the business of Human Zoos still continued.
• Many people from different parts of the world, including Inuit people, were taken from their homes and put into Europe and were forced to act as animals in Zoos.

Question 4

analyze trapped in a zoo

Answer 4

• inuit ppl were used as enterntainment
• No one cared abt health
• Indiegous culture was viewed as cirus acts becaus ethey werent normal (eurpoen)
• take dead bodies on inuit and eamine them (state dthey were theifs)

Question 5

conlude trapped in a zoo

Answer 5

European ways of living/eating/dressing lifestyles were normalized/idealized, therefore any other cultural traditions or ways of being, were viewed as “circus acts” or forms of entertainment

Question 6

Scientific racism:

Answer 6

using science to prove (physical and psychological) differences between groups of people and reinforce superiority of one person over another

Question 7

What are the consequences of ethnocentrism on the cultures and populations studied by anthropologists?

Answer 7

• Refenfoces ignorance and studies are based on what they think is right or wrong (racism)
• Biased information (false info which reinforces stereotypes)
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