Teira, David (2021) On the limits of cultural relativism as a debiasing method. In: UNSPECIFIED.

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I analyse cultural relativism as a methodological strategy to correct for ethnocentric biases in anthropological fieldwork. I discuss the format debiasing norms may adopt (rules or standards) depending on whether a discipline has a causal or interpretative outlook. Boas and his school advocated for an interpretative approach to ethnographic fieldwork, in which cultural relativism was implemented as a standard (“Only culturally unbiased reports are admissible”) to be interpreted by expert third parties. Legitimate as it may be as a debiasing method, it does not allow anthropologists to adjudicate their debates on biases in their ethnographic record.

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Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (UNSPECIFIED)
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Teira, David dteira@fsof.uned.es 0000-0002-4551-2371
Keywords:	cultural relativism, bias, anthropology, Boas
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Anthropology General Issues > Evidence General Issues > Values In Science
Depositing User:	Prof. David Teira
Date Deposited:	05 Nov 2021 04:10
Last Modified:	05 Nov 2021 04:10
Item ID:	19809
DOI or Unique Handle:	https://doi.org/10.1086/714853
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Anthropology General Issues > Evidence General Issues > Values In Science
Date:	2021
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/19809

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