Cultural relativism is the principle that ones beliefs and activities should be interpreted in terms of ones own
culture. This principle was established as
axiomatic in
anthropological research by
Franz Boas in the first few decades of the 20th century and later popularized by students. Boas himself did not use the term as such, but the term became common among anthropologists after Boas' death in
1942. The first use of the term was in the journal American Anthropologist in
1948; the term itself represents how Boas' students summarized their own synthesis of many of the principles Boas taught.
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