The late anthropologist Valerio Valeri (1944–98) was best known for his substantial writings on societies of Polynesia and eastern Indonesia. This volume, however, presents a lesser-known side of Valeri’s genius through a dazzlingly erudite set of comparative essays on core topics in the history of...

Within the frame of cultural relativism and transcultural care, this work aims to globally approach the phenomenon of healers or quakers and “folk care”, and understand their coexistence with highly qualified health care systems; to find out the profile, methods and rites that are used, some common...

Epistemology as the philosophy of science is to-day threatened by relativism, which is advocated by cognitive psychology, sociology and ethnology of sciences. Quine's physicalisme does not defend epistemology against these onsets. Husserl offers a double answer against relativism: the resort to "wor...

National audience The strong programme refers to the course of study developed from the mid-1960s by David Bloor and his colleagues from the Science Studies Unit of the University of Edinburgh. With a view to contributing to the sociological analysis of scientific knowledge, it forms part of the bro...

Supplement to the number 13 of MarcoELE (July — December 2011) The overall objective of this work has been to develop a theoretical and practical proposal that could serve as a basis for addressing the cultural relativism of silence in the classroom of E LE. In our theoretical approach, we seek to p...

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 9.9pt 0pt 18pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-family: " lang="IT">Il multiculturalismo è un modello culturale e politico-istituzionale per la gestione della diversità in una società multietnica, la cui base teorica viene...

In this paper we have based our analysis on proverbs of Serbian and Spanish language in order to demonstrate the role of these linguistic and cultural constructions in the ethnolinguistic investigation. Relativism observed in them, often reflected as contradictions, is of a huge significanc...

This paper focuses on the impact of relativism within anthropology as a discipline. Relativistic conceptions, account for in this analysis, emerged both from philosophy (philosophy of science in particular) and anthropology. These conceptions have influenced the discipline directly, through developm...

There is a dearth of reliable literature that appropriately coined and conveyed the conceptual framework of federalism, scarcity of reliable information that analytically x-rayed the structural arrangement of Nigerian federalism, and challenges militating against the expected gains of federalism and...

this objective article reopens a debate on human relations with the natural environment, analysing a repertoire of the ideas that organise the relationship between human societies and nature, in all their diversity — spatial, cultural and temporal — in which it is possible to distinguish, from a str...

As one attempts to approach the multiple dimensions of modernity and its nexus with contemporary theoretical debates, one should not omit the different contributions made by the so-called post-modern critique. This article discusses these contributions on the basis of those theoretical elements t...

This article seeks to examine the effects of contemporary ‘shrinking of the world’ conditions in redefining the place of differences in post-national societies. The coexistence of different cultural practices at one and the same legal milestone now requires new ways of managing and sharing political...

In this paper, I analyzed George Gershwin’s musical works and the role of imagination in his musical compositions. In his case, imagination is a new product of his mind. This is in accordance with his interests, purposes and cultural backgrounds. Efforts to appreciate his works should be done in cla...

The text of this paper is based on a lecture given at the symposium of the Ghent African Platform “Researching Gender in/on Africa” at Ghent University in December 2009. It addresses some general challenges faced by ‘gender studies’ as an autonomous field versus ‘gender research’ as an integrated to...

The text of this paper is based on a lecture given at the symposium of the Ghent African Platform “Researching Gender in/on Africa” at Ghent University in December 2009. It addresses some general challenges faced by ‘gender studies’ as an autonomous field versus ‘gender research’ as an integrated to...

In this article we critically examine some of the current uses and developments of the concept of identity, particularly ethnic identity and ethnicity, both linked to indigenous and Afro-descendant peoples and the construction of culture-based boundaries or limits of social inclusion/exclusion. We p...

The approach of Critical Legal Studies that law is a cultural artefact that can be criticised is taken as point of departure in this paper. This insight is applied to food as a very important cultural artefact that permeates virtually every aspect of our personal and social lives. The paper then exa...

This article explores ideas of “Great Theatre”, linking these to notions of cultural specificity rather than universality and drawing on distinctions between objective and subjective spectatorship. Connections are suggested between recent approaches to artistic research and the ways in which live pe...

Introduction Cultural citizenship is a set of values, attitudes and common fundamental rules which include a sense of belonging, commitment and respect. Citizenship culture, also known as democratic citizenship, involves activeness, commitment and the acquiring of values, attitudes, skills and loyal...

Whether objectivity in the understanding of history is achivable? Putting  in another way, whether it is possible to account a historical event purely objectively, and free of one's own values, attitudes, and interests? Whether it is possible to have a "complete history'' and a complete explanation...

An avid translator, the poet, novelist, essayist and journalist, Dezső Kosztolányi believed in linguistic relativism, the uniqueness of each language-created world view, and the impossibility of translation. Paradoxically, one of his main concerns was to express in fiction various encounters between...

Abstract Taking Boaventura de Sousa Santos' argument that there is no global social justice without global cognitive justice as its starting point, this article suggests that there is no global climate justice without global cognitive justice (implying both ontological justice and epistemological ju...

This work seeks to start a reflection on the principle of national discretion, and to set out different doctrinal positions on the subject. The connection between this doctrine and the subsidiarity of international jurisdiction is underlined. Having sought a definition of the doctrine and briefly an...

South African classrooms were highly diversified. The problem, however, was that although democracy has been a critical characteristic of South Africa for over two decades, it is still a very vague concept to many. A teacher who truly understood democracy knew that it was not just about freedom of s...

Moral Relativism can be considered an attractive alternative to realism because relativists can make good sense of cultural and societal disagreements by seeing them as faultless. However, we can show that this advantage is made possible by systematically disagreeing with moral phenomenology. Relati...