A brief note on a book basically skimmed. Good chapters on the witting or unwitting wrong conclusions of Margaret Meade in Samoa which ever after made cultural relativism a sociological dogma.
The book's scathing critique of cultural relativism is welcome but its consequent embracing of evolutionary explanation of societal universals is not.
Sunday, April 8, 2007
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