“Think Like an Anthropologist” Matthew Engelke (2017) Review | We are all different yet not that different

★★★★★ I've always been interested in Anthropology and this is why. We are all different, but not because of biological difference or difference in capabilities.  So we're not that different.

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Think Like an Anthropologist
Matthew Engelke 2017
368 pages
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I’ve always been interested in Anthropology and this is why.
It is a study to look at the world from the native’s (or local’s) point of view or points of view.
We are all different, people in European city and in a small island in the Polynesia are different but not because of biological difference or difference in capabilities.
They’re certainly not “backwards” or “barbarian”.
If anything, I’d say colonialists were barbarian and backwards.

Starting with curiosity, move on to going there (most of the time) and live with the natives, think like them and rationalise like them, but always with critical eyes.

It’s different from psychology because it focuses more on the communal value and those thoughts might sound traditional, but we do not live without them.
We’re not that modern.

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