Assertion: anthropologist | /r/CapableOf | learn to avoid the tendency
Facets:
value: through the comparative method
type: MANNER
value: to avoid ethnocentrism
type: PURPOSE
value: to avoid "ethnocentrism,"
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: Through the comparative method an anthropologist learns to avoid "ethnocentrism," the tendency to interpret strange customs on the basis of preconceptions derived from one's own cultural background.
text: Through the comparative method, an anthropologist learns to avoid “ethnocentrism,” the tendency to interpret strange customs on the basis of preconceptions derived from one’s own cultural background.