Dialectics of Culture: Relativism in Popular and Anthropological Discourse

Feinberg, Richard

doi:10.1353/anq.2007.0040

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“…Some participants struggled to understand the distinctive aspects of CA, but, gradually, they were able to reflect on the two different contexts as relative rather than as having a superior-inferior relationship. The phrase “cultural relativism” has several variants, including the idea that individuals’ beliefs are relative to the social contexts surrounding them [ 27 ], and that individual cultural identity and its effect on relationships are important aspects for physicians [ 28 ]. However, in this study, we focus solely on the relative perceptions toward institutions’ socio-cultural contexts, and the culture among medical professions.…”

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Cultivating cultural awareness among medical educators by integrating cultural anthropology in faculty development: an action research study

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Background In faculty development, understanding each participant’s cultural context is important. However, there is scarce evidence on how to improve cultural understanding in faculty development. Cultural anthropology is a discipline that focuses on developing cultural self-awareness by understanding different cultures. Professionals from this field can be crucial to the goal of cultivating cultural awareness among medical educators. The aims of this study are to 1) develop and modify cultural anthropology sessions in faculty development and 2) evaluate the effectiveness of these sessions, including their long-term impacts. Methods The cultural anthropology sessions were organized as part of a longitudinal faculty development program—Foundation Course for Medical Education—at Kyoto University in Japan. The study included 47 medical educators participating in faculty development and three lecturers: two cultural anthropologists and a medical educator. We developed the cultural anthropology sessions and implemented them in the longitudinal faculty development program. In these sessions, cultural anthropologists used inquiry-guided reflection. An action research methodology was employed and repeated in four cycles from 2015 to 2018. Qualitative and quantitative data were collected during the action research cycles. The qualitative data were thematically analyzed. Results The cultural anthropologists’ inquiries fostered learning during the sessions, and three themes—cultural relativism, attention to context, and reframing—were synthesized. As a long-term impact of the sessions, the learners reported becoming more aware of the cultural contexts in their daily educational and clinical activities. Conclusions The cultural anthropology sessions in the faculty development program were shown to have enhanced the participants’ awareness of cultural contexts. The concept and format of these sessions may be used more widely in faculty development programs.

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“…Richard Feinberg skriver i en artikkel i Anthropological Quarterly (Feinberg 2007) at det ikke er relativisme, men kultur som er det største problemet i kulturrelativisme. antropologen gå på sokkelesten inn i «fremmede kulturer» for ikke å knuse porselenet som skal bringes uskadet hjem for å studeres naermere.…”

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Kampen om mobilitet og sted

Engebrigtsen

2017

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Kampen om mobilitet og stedHva kan antropologien tilføre forståelsen av «migrasjonskrisen»? 1 The struggle over mobility and place What might anthropology contribute to the study of the current «migration crisis»? Ada I. Engebrigtsen SAMMENDRAGArtikkelen diskuterer hva antropologien kan tilføre studiet og analysen av dagens migrasjonssituasjon, som media og myndigheter stort sett beskriver med kriseterminologi. Inspirert av en rekke kritiske forskere prøver jeg å diskutere hva denne posisjoneringen betyr, og hva den gjør. Jeg er også opptatt av hva den ikke gjør, hva den dekker over og hva en slik tilsløring betyr. Jeg retter søkelyset mot det jeg ser som to forskningsagendaer som kan betegnes som migrasjonsforskning og mobilitetsforskning, og diskuterer muligheter og begrensninger i disse begrepene og den forskningen som ofte følger. Til slutt vil jeg argumentere for tre perspektiver som jeg mener er implisitte i antropologisk tenkning og som må styre også forskning om «kampen om mobilitet og sted»: systematisk relasjonisme -analytisk relativisme og hardnakket fabulering.Nøkkelord Krise, Migrasjon, Mobilitet, Nomadologi, Relasjonisme, Fabulering ABSTRACT This article sets out to discuss the notion of crisis and argues that the notion has several shortcomings for the understanding of the current global situation. Instead of shedding light on these global movements of people, and the relationships that spur them and that 1. Denne teksten var et av plenumsforedragene på NAF-konferansen i 2016 og har etter forfatterens ønske beholdt sitt foredragspreg.

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Cultural Relativism

Vujnović¹

2012

The Wiley‐Blackwell Encyclopedia of Globalization

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Dialectics of Culture: Relativism in Popular and Anthropological Discourse

Cited by 7 publications

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Cultivating cultural awareness among medical educators by integrating cultural anthropology in faculty development: an action research study

Cultivating cultural awareness among medical educators by integrating cultural anthropology in faculty development: an action research study

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