Analysis Of Dances With Wolves Lieutenant Dunbar

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When an anthropologist is studying another culture they take notes on the different way of life of that culture and even try to participate in some of that cultures rituals. In order for anthropologist to get the rawest data and truly be accepted by its people that they are studying they must be extremely accepting to the society and cultural they are studying. For example, in the movie Dances with Wolves Lieutenant Dunbar takes a big bite out of one of the boffolas organs after one of the natives offer it to him. This is something not typical in the American culture to eat a raw organ, but in the Indian culture it is customary for your first boffola kill. This was an example of Dunbar using cultural relativism. The anthropologist is accepting

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