People are just plain different. People not only believe things that are different from you, but also different from the very moral fiber of your But it's hard to be totally ethnocentric -Imagine that if you were born in Islamabad. You would probably be Muslim, regardless of what you presently think about Islam b. In a way, the fact that our beliefs are so dependant upon where we were aised is very unsettling. c. Thats why Congress was so upset about MACOS i. Alternative ways of life were being presented without condemning d. Anthropology also unsettles morality by sowing it as constructed and contingent i. It doesnt necessarily come out of Gods head e. EE. Evans-Pritchard(EP) i. Studied the azande in sudan ii. Studied their thinking, particularly about witchcraft iii. People assumed that the primitives were just backwards in their thinking iv. EP assumed on the contrary that everyone had a kind of logic and reason behind it v. Wrote a very influential book saying that: If you take their base assumptions to be true, everything else about their behaviors follows logically and rationally from them While he lived with the Azande he lives by these assumption but following their logic and rational. The whole system is coherent and systematic f. The implication is that everyone's way of thinking is contingent in the same way g. Same thing was done for morality h. Rival of ep was radcliffe- Brown 1. Had an idea about ancestor worsha. People are just plain different. People not only believe things that are different from you, but also different from the very moral fiber of your being. i. But it’s hard to be totally ethnocentric – Imagine that if you were born in Islamabad. You would probably be Muslim, regardless of what you presently think about Islam. b. In a way, the fact that our beliefs are so dependant upon where we were raised is very unsettling. c. That’s why Congress was so upset about MACOS. i. Alternative ways of life were being presented without condemning them. d. Anthropology also unsettles morality by sowing it as constructed and contingent i. It doesn’t necessarily come out of God’s head. e. E E. Evans-Pritchard (EP) i. Studied the Azande in Sudan. ii. Studied their thinking, particularly about witchcraft iii. People assumed that the primitives were just backwards in their thinking. iv. EP assumed on the contrary that everyone had a kind of logic and reason behind it. v. Wrote a very influential book saying that: If you take their base assumptions to be true, everything else about their behaviors follows logically and rationally from them. While he lived with the Azande, he lives by these assumption but following their logic and rational. The whole system is coherent and systematic. f. The implication is that everyone’s way of thinking is contingent in the same way. g. Same thing was done for morality. h. Rival of EP was Radcliffe-Brown i. Had an idea about ancestor worship