The core of Allan Bloom’s 1987 book The Closing of the American Mind, a complaint about the nature of higher education, is an argument against cultural relativism. “There is one thing a professor can ...

The novelist Virginia Woolf once said, "on or about December 1910, human character changed." (see Jackson Lears). She was kidding about the specificity of the date but in earnest about the change.

Cultural Relativism—An anthropological term that can best be defined as follows: An individual's actions, behaviors and beliefs can be understood only in terms of the culture from which he or she ...

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, ...

The issue of implementing universal human rights (specifically Article 18 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which articulates the right to freedom of thought, conscience and ...

“I have had a curious experience in graduate work during the last few years,” the anthropologist Franz Boas wrote to a colleague in 1920. “All my best students are women.” The sea change was telling.

Dr. Subhradipta Sarkar is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. An LL.B. from the University of Calcutta, he holds LL.M., M.Phil. & Ph.D. degrees from ...