| June 03, 2005

Understandably, those trying to take objective approaches in observing other cultures for the sake of scientific, literary, or anthropologic research constantly suffer the condition of being stuck as subjects within their own cultures, and therefore have difficulty removing themselves from their conditioning so as to maintain integrity in their research. To overcome this, early anthropologists such as Franz Boas Bronislaw Malinowski developed the concepts, respectively, of “cultural relativism” and “functionalism” as tools to encourage anti-ethnocentrism anthropology.