In Harmonium

Being in the main the musings of a Symbolic Anthropologist

Real Cultural Relativism isn’t warm and fuzzy

| January 7, 2010

A friend and colleague over at the SWC, Beezebubalicious (what a handle!), just posted a link to a BBC story on the rise of human sacrifice in Uganda.   What sparked some of my interest was that he said he found this “hard to understand from a cultural (or a relativist) point of view.”  Why?