The document discusses and compares two remote cultures. It notes that both cultures are seen as "stuck in the past" and not progressing with modern society, though the people in the cultures seem content with their way of life. It also notes some differences between the cultures, such as funeral practices, but also similarities to the author's own upbringing. Overall, the document suggests that while outsiders may view the cultures as in need of help to progress, the people in the cultures prefer to be left alone to continue living as they choose.
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A Defense of Ethical Relativism
RUTH BENEDICT
From Benedict, Ruth "Anthropology and the Abnormal," Journal of General Psychology, 10, 1934.
Ruth Benedict (1887-1948), a foremost American anthropologist, taught at
Columbia University, and she is best known for her book Pattern of Culture
(1935). Benedict views social systems as communities with common beliefs
and practices, which have become integrated patterns of ideas and practices.
Like a work of art, a culture chooses which theme from its repertoire of
basic tendencies to emphasize and then produces a grand design, favoring
those tendencies. The final systems differ from one another in striking ways,
but we have no reason to say that one system is better than another. Once a
society has made the choice, normalcy will look different, depending on the
idea-practice pattern of the culture.
Benedict views morality as dependent on the varying histories and
environments of different cultures. In this essay she assembles an
impressive amount of data from her anthropological research of tribal
behavior on an island in northwest Melanesia from which she draws her
conclusion that moral relativism is the correct view of moral principles.
MODERN SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY has become more and more a study of
the varieties and common elements of cultural environment and the consequences
of these in human behavior. For such a surly of diverse social orders primitive
peoples fortunately provide a laboratory not yet entirely vitiated by the spread of a
standardized worldwide civilization. Dyaks and Hopis, Fijians and Yakuts arc
significant for psychological and sociological study because only among these
simpler peoples has there been sufficient isolation to give opportunity for the
development of localized social forms. In the higher cultures the standardization of
custom and belief over a couple of continents has given a false sense of the
inevitability of the particular forms at have gained currency, and we need to turn to
a wider survey in order to check the conclusions we hastily base upon this near-
universality of familiar customs. Most of the simpler cultures did not gain the wide
currency of the one which, out of our experience, we identify with human nature,
but this was for various historical reasons, and certainly not for any that gives us as
its carriers a monopoly of social good or of social sanity. Modern civilization, from
this point of view, becomes not a necessary pinnacle of human achievement but
one entry in a long series of possible adjustments.
These adjustments, whether they are in mannerisms like the ways of showing ...
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A Defense of Ethical Relativism
RUTH BENEDICT
From Benedict, Ruth "Anthropology and the Abnormal," Journal of General Psychology, 10, 1934.
Ruth Benedict (1887-1948), a foremost American anthropologist, taught at
Columbia University, and she is best known for her book Pattern of Culture
(1935). Benedict views social systems as communities with common beliefs
and practices, which have become integrated patterns of ideas and practices.
Like a work of art, a culture chooses which theme from its repertoire of
basic tendencies to emphasize and then produces a grand design, favoring
those tendencies. The final systems differ from one another in striking ways,
but we have no reason to say that one system is better than another. Once a
society has made the choice, normalcy will look different, depending on the
idea-practice pattern of the culture.
Benedict views morality as dependent on the varying histories and
environments of different cultures. In this essay she assembles an
impressive amount of data from her anthropological research of tribal
behavior on an island in northwest Melanesia from which she draws her
conclusion that moral relativism is the correct view of moral principles.
MODERN SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY has become more and more a study of
the varieties and common elements of cultural environment and the consequences
of these in human behavior. For such a surly of diverse social orders primitive
peoples fortunately provide a laboratory not yet entirely vitiated by the spread of a
standardized worldwide civilization. Dyaks and Hopis, Fijians and Yakuts arc
significant for psychological and sociological study because only among these
simpler peoples has there been sufficient isolation to give opportunity for the
development of localized social forms. In the higher cultures the standardization of
custom and belief over a couple of continents has given a false sense of the
inevitability of the particular forms at have gained currency, and we need to turn to
a wider survey in order to check the conclusions we hastily base upon this near-
universality of familiar customs. Most of the simpler cultures did not gain the wide
currency of the one which, out of our experience, we identify with human nature,
but this was for various historical reasons, and certainly not for any that gives us as
its carriers a monopoly of social good or of social sanity. Modern civilization, from
this point of view, becomes not a necessary pinnacle of human achievement but
one entry in a long series of possible adjustments.
These adjustments, whether they are in mannerisms like the ways of showing ...
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1. Remote Cultues
1) My overall impressionof bothculturesisthattheyare both “stuck inthe past” and are not
movingalongwithsociety.We lookatthemand see itas unfortunate,buttheyseemtolike the
livestheylead,andthatisall that matters.
2) Lots of thingsare impliedwithinthese cultures,forexample inthe amanabe (sorryforthe
terrible spelling) tribe,once apersonisdeceaseditissupposedtobe commpnsense thatyou
neverspeakof themagain.
3) These societiesdifferfrommine substantially;howeverJessecowhite’sisnotveryfarfrom
mine.Theyplace where Igrewup,CharlestonWV,isnottoo terriblyfarfromhisbirthplace,
and there were manypeople aroundme growingupwho’slivesresembledthatculture.
4) Again,the similarities betweenthe twoare that we lookat themas strange and wantto help
themprogresswiththe restof us,however,theydon’twantto.
5) These cultureswere probablycreatedatthe same time asall the othersthat resembledthem,
these justdidn’tcontinue to progress.
6) At leastforthe firstculture(amanabe)itwouldtakesyearsandyearstotry to integrate them
intoour society,itisprobablysafertoleave thembe andletthemdo whattheywant.However,
the culture of the White’scouldpossiblybe changed atsome point,butIwouldstill leave it
alone.