Does the isolating barrier between cultures block praise as well as blame? Our next question is this: Does the isolating bar- rier between cultures block praise as well as blame? If I want to say that the Samurai culture has many virtues, or to praise the South American Indians, am I prevented from doing that […]
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Would we ourselves be qualified to deliver such an indictment on the Samurai, provided we could spend two weeks in ancient Japan? We must ask first. Does the isolating barrier work both ways? Are people in other cultures equally unable to criticize us? This question struck me sharply when I read a remark in The
Was he in a position to deliver a damning indictment? ‘We must ask first. Does the isolating barrier work both ways? Are people in other cultures equally unable to criticize us? This question struck me sharply when I read a remark in The Guardian by an anthropologist about a South American Indian who had been
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Are people in other cultures equally unable to criticize us? We must ask first. Does the isolating barrier work both ways? Are people in other cultures equally unable to criticize us? This question struck me sharply when I read a remark in The Guardian by an anthropologist about a South American Indian who had been
Are people in other cultures equally unable to criticize us? Read More »
Does the isolating barrier work both ways? We must ask first. Does the isolating barrier work both ways? Are people in other cultures equally unable to criticize us? This question struck me sharply when I read a remark in The Guardian by an anthropologist about a South American Indian who had been taken into a
The concept of the normal is properly a variant of the concept of the good. It is that which society has approved. A normal action is one which falls well within the limits of expected behavior for a particular society. Its variability among different peoples is essentially a function of the variability of the behav-
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The most notorious of these is trance and catalepsy. Even a very mild mystic is aberrant in our culture. But most peoples have regarded even extreme psychic manifestations not only as normal and desirable, but even as characteristic of highly val- ued and gifted individuals. This was true even in our own cultural background in
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how far is it necessary to regard this as a function of the culture? One of these problems relates to the customary modern normal-abnormal categories and our conclu- sions regarding them. In how far are such categories culturally determined, or in how far can we with assurance regard them as absolute? In how far can
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how far can we regard inability to function socially as diagnostic of abnormality One of these problems relates to the customary modern normal-abnormal categories and our conclu- sions regarding them. In how far are such categories culturally determined, or in how far can we with assurance regard them as absolute? In how far can we
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In how far can we regard inability to function socially as diagnostic of abnormality, or in how far is it necessary to regard this as a function of the culture? One of these problems relates to the customary modern normal-abnormal categories and our conclu- sions regarding them. In how far are such categories culturally determined,