Anthropologists studying female circumcision might personally be horrified by the practice, but must also be able to suspend their own personal judgment in order to understand the beliefs and practices of others within their cultural context. What is this known as?
A) relative altruism
B) cultural relativism
C) relative culturalism
D) contextual relativism
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