ABSTRACT
Said (1978) has argued that western intellectual discourses are bounded by their own political culture and that since the Third World, as the hinterland of western colonisation, has never been completely autonomous from the political culture, one can expect this form of intellectual domination to persist for some time. Cohen (1989) has described as a human rights issue how cultural relativism has succeeded in putting Third World communities in a ‘primitive’ category, while enhancing the advancement of the west in the field of cultural enquiry.
