{"id":65149,"date":"2025-02-03T00:08:46","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T00:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/anthropology\/how-to-think-like-an-anthropologist-and-why\/"},"modified":"2025-02-03T00:08:46","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T00:08:46","slug":"how-to-think-like-an-anthropologist-and-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=65149","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;How To Think Like An Anthropologist&#8217; \u2014 And Why&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>On Oct.20, 2007, a Guardian story was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/katine\/2007\/oct\/20\/about\">headlined this way<\/a>: \u201cCan we, together, lift one village out of the Middle Ages?\u201d Beneath the headline is a statement about traveling \u201ca few hours from London \u2014 and 700 years back in time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What do these words signal but that the villagers need to be brought forward in time, into civilization?<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s dangerous thinking, Engelke says \u2014 and through the lens of anthropology, we can see why. From his book, published Tuesday:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt prevents us from seeing that the lives of Katine villagers are not trapped in the fourteenth century but lived out in a twenty-first-century world shaped by a host of colonial and postcolonial economic and political dynamics\u2026 If we can place the African Other in an earlier age, we don\u2019t have to face up fully to the reasons why their lives don\u2019t look like ours.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In other words, it prevents us from seeing other people\u2019s humanity \u2014 and how Western colonization has impacted that humanity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Oct.20, 2007, a Guardian story was headlined this way: \u201cCan we, together, lift one village out of the Middle Ages?\u201d Beneath the headline is a statement about traveling \u201ca few hours from London \u2014 and 700 years back in time.\u201d What do these words signal but that the villagers need to be brought forward [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11767],"tags":[17079,3735,18362,35209,4538,30633],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-65149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anthropology","tag-anthropologist","tag-anthropology","tag-cultural-anthropology","tag-think","tag-thoughts","tag-why"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&#039;How To Think Like An Anthropologist&#039; 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