INDEV 300
Culture and Ethics
Winter 2021
Topics
- Cultural relativism
- Civilizational discourses
- Culture and development ethics
- Gender and customary law
- Traditional practices
- Human differences and conflict
Readings
- Abu-Lughod, L. (2002). Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? Anthropological Reflections on Cultural Relativism and Its Others. American Anthropologist 104(3), 783–790.
- Zechenter, E. (1997). In the Name of Culture: Cultural Relativism and the Abuse of the Individual. Journal of Anthropological Research 53(3), 319–347.
- Huntington, S. (1993). The Clash of Civilizations? Foreign Affairs 72(3), 22–49.
- Hall, M.; Jackson, P. T. (2007). Civilizational Identity: The Production and Reproduction of Civilizations in International Relations, chapters 2 and 11.
- Cox, R. W. (2001). Civilizations and the twenty-first century: some theoretical considerations. International Relations of the Asia-Pacific 1(1), 105–130.
- Albertyn, C. (2009). The stubborn persistence of patriarchy? Gender equality and cultural diversity in South Africa. Constitutional Court Review 2.
- Nhlapo, T. (2017). Customary Law in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Constitutional Confrontations in Culture, Gender and Living Law. South African Journal on Human Rights 33(1), 1–24.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- syllabus ↗Winter 2021
- Archived syllabus. Selected named required readings; the source includes further weekly readings.