Cultural relativism, the realization that diverse cultures have different, incommensurable aesthetic standards, anticipated by Montaigne and Machiavelli, was the discovery of the Neapolitan ...
Nowhere was this tendency towards self-flagellation more evident than in the reaction to the Committee on Background and Opportunity (COMBO) survey. After keeping the survey’s findings hidden during a ...
In the early 1970s, renowned anthropologist Clifford Geertz published his most influential book, The Interpretation of Cultures. The book was widely read throughout the social sciences and humanities, ...