Cultural conceptions of morality are grounded in diverse moral foundations, but identity research often assumes that individualizing concerns the universal basis for morality. Moral scales only foundations risk liberal ethnocentrism, to extent binding emphasized collectivist cultures overlooked. Three hundred and ninety-five Saudi Arabian UK participants completed prejudice measures, which eith...

This article explores the ethics of the current "War on Terrorism, asking whether anthropology, the discipline devoted to understanding and dealing with cultural difference, can provide us with critical purchase on the justifications made for American intervention in Afghanistan in terms of liberating, or saving, Afghan women. I look first at the dangers of reifying culture, apparent in the ten...

Moral relativism, as I understand it, is the claim that there is not a single objectively true morality but only many different moralities, just as there is not a single true language but only many different languages. Different people may have different moralities as reflected in the way they act and the ways they react to the actions of others and there is no objective way to show that one of...