How to Think Like an Anthropologist, What Is Anthropology..."Age of war and conflict, changing the 'frame of thought'"

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How to Think Like an Anthropologist, an introduction to anthropology used as textbooks at major universities around the world, such as Oxford University, Cambridge University, and London School of Economics, has been published. This book presents anthropology as a new 'thinking way' to understand the world, not just a discipline.

Author Matthew Englecky questions the common sense and values we have taken for granted and emphasizes the anthropological view of "familiarity with the familiar, unfamiliar with the unfamiliar." The book explains various ways of interpreting human society through core concepts such as culture, civilization, values, identity, and authority, and shows that the criteria we have believed in are formed in certain histories and cultures.

In particular, it presents a new perspective on modern international conflict and war. It analyzes how technological superiority and Western-centered perspectives led to failure through the case of the US war in the Middle East, and points to the limitations of intervention that does not understand the perspective of others. This goes beyond the dichotomous thinking of 'civilization vs barbarism' and leads to the message that the world must be understood in a cultural context.

The book's emphasis is on "anthropological sensitivity" and "cultural relativism." This means an attitude to understand the lives of others in their history and culture rather than judging them as right or wrong. Furthermore, it extends to the perception that different societies can live in different ways rather than interpreting the same world differently.

"How to Think Like an Anthropologist" raises the need to look at the world from various perspectives rather than a single perspective in today's intensifying conflict and division. This book re-questions the world familiar to readers and eventually establishes itself as a liberal arts book that leads to a shift in thinking.

The author Matthew Engelke is an anthropologist who studies religion, secularism, and material culture. He received degrees from the University of Chicago and Virginia, and was a professor at the London School of Economics (LSE) for about 16 years. He is currently a professor of religious studies at Columbia University and is a leading scholar in religious anthropology who has won the Clifford Geertz Award and the Victor Turner Award.

Park Young-seo is an anthropologist who studies emotions and ethics that make up political life centered on activism and social movements and graduated from Stanford University and received a doctorate in anthropology from Cambridge University. He is currently working in the Department of Anthropology at the London School of Economics (LSE). Kim Jae-wan has completed a PhD in social anthropology at Cambridge University and is studying the relationship between religion and politics.

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