a cross-cultural comparison of two or more different cultures rooted in ethnography is called cultural relativism.
a cross-cultural comparison of two or more different cultures rooted in ethnography is called cultural relativism.
a cross-cultural comparison of two or more different cultures rooted in ethnography is called?
cultural relativism
inquiry in sociocultural anthropology is guided in part by cultural relativism, the attempt to understand other societies in terms of their own cultural symbols and values. accepting other cultures in their own terms moderates reductionism in cross-cultural comparison. this project is often accommodated in the field of ethnography. ethnography can refer to both a methodology and the product of ethnographic research, i.e. an ethnographic monograph. as a methodology, ethnography is based upon long-term fieldwork within a community or other research site. participant observation is one of the foundational methods of social and cultural anthropology. ethnology involves the systematic comparison of different cultures. the process of participant-observation can be especially helpful to understanding a culture from an emic (conceptual, vs. etic, or technical) point of view.
anthropology
pouwer was a foremost advocate of a configurational approach for cross-cultural comparison with an emphasis on the importance of 'relative position' of elements within an arrangement rather than on elements themselves. pouwer's configurational approach has a synchronic aspect (comparison between cultures) and a diachronic aspect which (following lévi-strauss) he called 'structural history'.









































the configurational approach to cross-cultural comparison may also be viewed against other attempts such as those of structural functionalism, which dealt with institutions and functions.
jan pouwer