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An introductory book on anthropology compiled by the Korean Society of Cultural Anthropology with a unique structure and content to make anthropology more accessible to the general public.
Rather than explaining theories and concepts like a typical introductory book, this book contains papers on various topics that anthropologists collected and organized while living with local people, and the editors have refined them into essays that anyone can easily understand.
At the beginning of each chapter, the editors provide background and commentary on the text, helping readers new to anthropology understand the presented cases from a cultural anthropological perspective.
Rather than explaining theories and concepts like a typical introductory book, this book contains papers on various topics that anthropologists collected and organized while living with local people, and the editors have refined them into essays that anyone can easily understand.
At the beginning of each chapter, the editors provide background and commentary on the text, helping readers new to anthropology understand the presented cases from a cultural anthropological perspective.
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index
In publishing the revised and expanded edition
preface
When publishing a book
Author and original title of the article in this book
The peoples and cultures featured in this book
First cultural relativism
The Tiv Tribe Meets Shakespeare
Nasirma people
Second local investigation
Bushman's Christmas
Third Culture and Humanity
The quiet Indians, the Zuni people
Fierce Yanomamo Men
Fourth achievement culture
Caribbean romance
Fifth Difference and Inequality
Indian women die for dowries
The whiter your face, the higher your social status
Sixth Language and Communication
Talk without talking
Speaking of men and women in Madagascar
Marriage with the seventh relative
My maternal uncle from South Africa
The Eighth Power and Social Control
Big Man and Chief
Eskimo singing competition
ninth economy
Are good things limited?
The Use of Currency and the Lives of Africans
The Tenth Symbol and Ritual
Operating Room Story
The eleventh cultural shift
Stone axe and iron axe
The Twelfth Body and Culture
Anthropological Perspectives on Obesity
The thirteenth environment and life
The Fall of Easter Island
Fourteenth Education and Culture
To become a principal
Fifteenth New Scene
Anthropology student who went to the company
Anthropologists, look up now!
People who planned and created this book
People who reviewed the contents of this book
People who translated and wrote this book
preface
When publishing a book
Author and original title of the article in this book
The peoples and cultures featured in this book
First cultural relativism
The Tiv Tribe Meets Shakespeare
Nasirma people
Second local investigation
Bushman's Christmas
Third Culture and Humanity
The quiet Indians, the Zuni people
Fierce Yanomamo Men
Fourth achievement culture
Caribbean romance
Fifth Difference and Inequality
Indian women die for dowries
The whiter your face, the higher your social status
Sixth Language and Communication
Talk without talking
Speaking of men and women in Madagascar
Marriage with the seventh relative
My maternal uncle from South Africa
The Eighth Power and Social Control
Big Man and Chief
Eskimo singing competition
ninth economy
Are good things limited?
The Use of Currency and the Lives of Africans
The Tenth Symbol and Ritual
Operating Room Story
The eleventh cultural shift
Stone axe and iron axe
The Twelfth Body and Culture
Anthropological Perspectives on Obesity
The thirteenth environment and life
The Fall of Easter Island
Fourteenth Education and Culture
To become a principal
Fifteenth New Scene
Anthropology student who went to the company
Anthropologists, look up now!
People who planned and created this book
People who reviewed the contents of this book
People who translated and wrote this book
Into the book
I was embarrassed and reminded him that he had killed Hamlet's father before.
“That’s not true,” said the village chief.
“If my uncle killed my father, I should appeal to my father’s friends of the same age to take revenge.
Revenge is what they must do.
“You should never be violent toward an older relative,” he added, as if another thought had occurred to him.
“But if Hamlet’s uncle was really evil and put a spell on Hamlet to drive him mad, that would make for a great story.
Because the fact that Hamlet lost his mind and tried to kill his uncle was precisely because of his uncle's fault."
There was a murmur of agreement.
Now Hamlet was a wonderful story for them, but it wasn't the story I'd read before.
It was already so different from the original.
When I realized how complex the situations and scenes that would have to be explained would be, I lost my courage and decided to quickly skip over the controversial parts.
“That’s not true,” said the village chief.
“If my uncle killed my father, I should appeal to my father’s friends of the same age to take revenge.
Revenge is what they must do.
“You should never be violent toward an older relative,” he added, as if another thought had occurred to him.
“But if Hamlet’s uncle was really evil and put a spell on Hamlet to drive him mad, that would make for a great story.
Because the fact that Hamlet lost his mind and tried to kill his uncle was precisely because of his uncle's fault."
There was a murmur of agreement.
Now Hamlet was a wonderful story for them, but it wasn't the story I'd read before.
It was already so different from the original.
When I realized how complex the situations and scenes that would have to be explained would be, I lost my courage and decided to quickly skip over the controversial parts.
--- p.46
I asked him.
“Everyone is going to eat that meat anyway, so why put people in trouble and humiliate them on purpose?”
“It’s because of pride,” he answered calmly, as if he were revealing some great secret.
“Arrogance?”
"is it so.
When a man catches too many beasts, he begins to think that he is some great chief or something of that caliber.
And they come to regard other people as their servants or as inferior to them.
We can't just stand by and watch that happen.
You should never tolerate someone who is arrogant or boastful.
It must be stopped.
Because his arrogance and pride will one day kill one of us.
That's why we always say that the meat of the animals he hunted was really bad.
In this way, we keep his heart from becoming arrogant and make him humble.”
I asked him.
“Everyone is going to eat that meat anyway, so why put people in trouble and humiliate them on purpose?”
“It’s because of pride,” he answered calmly, as if he were revealing some great secret.
“Arrogance?”
"is it so.
When a man catches too many beasts, he begins to think that he is some great chief or something of that caliber.
And they come to regard other people as their servants or as inferior to them.
We can't just stand by and watch that happen.
You should never tolerate someone who is arrogant or boastful.
It must be stopped.
Because his arrogance and pride will one day kill one of us.
That's why we always say that the meat of the animals he hunted was really bad.
In this way, we keep his heart from becoming arrogant and make him humble.”
“Everyone is going to eat that meat anyway, so why put people in trouble and humiliate them on purpose?”
“It’s because of pride,” he answered calmly, as if he were revealing some great secret.
“Arrogance?”
"is it so.
When a man catches too many beasts, he begins to think that he is some great chief or something of that caliber.
And they come to regard other people as their servants or as inferior to them.
We can't just stand by and watch that happen.
You should never tolerate someone who is arrogant or boastful.
It must be stopped.
Because his arrogance and pride will one day kill one of us.
That's why we always say that the meat of the animals he hunted was really bad.
In this way, we keep his heart from becoming arrogant and make him humble.”
I asked him.
“Everyone is going to eat that meat anyway, so why put people in trouble and humiliate them on purpose?”
“It’s because of pride,” he answered calmly, as if he were revealing some great secret.
“Arrogance?”
"is it so.
When a man catches too many beasts, he begins to think that he is some great chief or something of that caliber.
And they come to regard other people as their servants or as inferior to them.
We can't just stand by and watch that happen.
You should never tolerate someone who is arrogant or boastful.
It must be stopped.
Because his arrogance and pride will one day kill one of us.
That's why we always say that the meat of the animals he hunted was really bad.
In this way, we keep his heart from becoming arrogant and make him humble.”
--- p.77
Men always want to be chosen by women.
When a woman is satisfied with the man and is confident that she will have a new husband, she gathers all of her current husband's belongings and leaves them on the doorstep.
My husband doesn't have many possessions.
A spare pair of shoes, a skirt and belt for dancing, a box containing precious feathers for making prayer sticks, and a can of paint for changing the appearance of the prayer sticks and masks are all her husband's possessions.
Even if he gets married, he does not bring more important ceremonial items from his mother's house.
When he comes home in the evening and sees his little bundle outside the door, he takes it and goes back to his mother's house crying.
Men always want to be chosen by women.
When a woman is satisfied with the man and is confident that she will have a new husband, she gathers all of her current husband's belongings and leaves them on the doorstep.
My husband doesn't have many possessions.
A spare pair of shoes, a skirt and belt for dancing, a box containing precious feathers for making prayer sticks, and a can of paint for changing the appearance of the prayer sticks and masks are all her husband's possessions.
Even if he gets married, he does not bring more important ceremonial items from his mother's house.
When he comes home in the evening and sees his little bundle outside the door, he takes it and goes back to his mother's house crying.
When a woman is satisfied with the man and is confident that she will have a new husband, she gathers all of her current husband's belongings and leaves them on the doorstep.
My husband doesn't have many possessions.
A spare pair of shoes, a skirt and belt for dancing, a box containing precious feathers for making prayer sticks, and a can of paint for changing the appearance of the prayer sticks and masks are all her husband's possessions.
Even if he gets married, he does not bring more important ceremonial items from his mother's house.
When he comes home in the evening and sees his little bundle outside the door, he takes it and goes back to his mother's house crying.
Men always want to be chosen by women.
When a woman is satisfied with the man and is confident that she will have a new husband, she gathers all of her current husband's belongings and leaves them on the doorstep.
My husband doesn't have many possessions.
A spare pair of shoes, a skirt and belt for dancing, a box containing precious feathers for making prayer sticks, and a can of paint for changing the appearance of the prayer sticks and masks are all her husband's possessions.
Even if he gets married, he does not bring more important ceremonial items from his mother's house.
When he comes home in the evening and sees his little bundle outside the door, he takes it and goes back to his mother's house crying.
--- p.91
The ability to sing is something that the Eskimos value as much as physical strength or even more than physical prowess.
That's why people practice singing so hard.
If you are physically weak or have excellent singing skills that guarantee victory, challenge someone you have a grudge against to a singing competition.
The Eskimos who live in the Arctic do not engage in duels such as fist fights or head-butts, but rather resolve disputes only through singing competitions.
In Greenland, headbutting is sometimes accompanied by singing competitions.
Among the Eskimos of western Greenland, families sometimes sing in chorus to support those competing.
The ability to sing is something that the Eskimos value as much as physical strength or even more than physical prowess.
That's why people practice singing so hard.
If you are physically weak or have excellent singing skills that guarantee victory, challenge someone you have a grudge against to a singing competition.
The Eskimos who live in the Arctic do not engage in duels such as fist fights or head-butts, but rather resolve disputes only through singing competitions.
In Greenland, headbutting is sometimes accompanied by singing competitions.
Among the Eskimos of western Greenland, families sometimes sing in chorus to support those competing.
That's why people practice singing so hard.
If you are physically weak or have excellent singing skills that guarantee victory, challenge someone you have a grudge against to a singing competition.
The Eskimos who live in the Arctic do not engage in duels such as fist fights or head-butts, but rather resolve disputes only through singing competitions.
In Greenland, headbutting is sometimes accompanied by singing competitions.
Among the Eskimos of western Greenland, families sometimes sing in chorus to support those competing.
The ability to sing is something that the Eskimos value as much as physical strength or even more than physical prowess.
That's why people practice singing so hard.
If you are physically weak or have excellent singing skills that guarantee victory, challenge someone you have a grudge against to a singing competition.
The Eskimos who live in the Arctic do not engage in duels such as fist fights or head-butts, but rather resolve disputes only through singing competitions.
In Greenland, headbutting is sometimes accompanied by singing competitions.
Among the Eskimos of western Greenland, families sometimes sing in chorus to support those competing.
--- p.227
First, Susan communicated with the warehouse staff in an 'anthropological' manner.
Anthropologists want to understand the local people's perspective, so they keep asking questions when they don't know something.
The local people are patient and explain their cultural characteristics to the anthropologist's barrage of questions.
The locals praise the anthropologist when he finally seems to understand them and act appropriately, and they rejoice when the anthropologist makes a mistake or appears flustered, feeling as if they have become the anthropologist's mentor.
In this process, the anthropologist learns what to do and can explain from an insider's perspective what is happening and what is likely to happen in the future.
When locals tell anthropologists, “You’re finally human,” or “You’re starting to talk like us,” it means the anthropologist has finally gained an insider’s perspective.
Therefore, anthropologists must first abandon their preconceptions.
First, Susan communicated with the warehouse staff in an 'anthropological' manner.
Anthropologists want to understand the local people's perspective, so they keep asking questions when they don't know something.
The local people are patient and explain their cultural characteristics to the anthropologist's barrage of questions.
The locals praise the anthropologist when he finally seems to understand them and act appropriately, and they rejoice when the anthropologist makes a mistake or appears flustered, feeling as if they have become the anthropologist's mentor.
In this process, the anthropologist learns what to do and can explain from an insider's perspective what is happening and what is likely to happen in the future.
When locals tell anthropologists, “You’re finally becoming human,” or “You’re starting to talk like us,” it means the anthropologist has finally gained an insider’s perspective.
Therefore, anthropologists must first abandon their preconceptions.
Anthropologists want to understand the local people's perspective, so they keep asking questions when they don't know something.
The local people are patient and explain their cultural characteristics to the anthropologist's barrage of questions.
The locals praise the anthropologist when he finally seems to understand them and act appropriately, and they rejoice when the anthropologist makes a mistake or appears flustered, feeling as if they have become the anthropologist's mentor.
In this process, the anthropologist learns what to do and can explain from an insider's perspective what is happening and what is likely to happen in the future.
When locals tell anthropologists, “You’re finally human,” or “You’re starting to talk like us,” it means the anthropologist has finally gained an insider’s perspective.
Therefore, anthropologists must first abandon their preconceptions.
First, Susan communicated with the warehouse staff in an 'anthropological' manner.
Anthropologists want to understand the local people's perspective, so they keep asking questions when they don't know something.
The local people are patient and explain their cultural characteristics to the anthropologist's barrage of questions.
The locals praise the anthropologist when he finally seems to understand them and act appropriately, and they rejoice when the anthropologist makes a mistake or appears flustered, feeling as if they have become the anthropologist's mentor.
In this process, the anthropologist learns what to do and can explain from an insider's perspective what is happening and what is likely to happen in the future.
When locals tell anthropologists, “You’re finally becoming human,” or “You’re starting to talk like us,” it means the anthropologist has finally gained an insider’s perspective.
Therefore, anthropologists must first abandon their preconceptions.
--- p.377
Publisher's Review
In the age of globalization and internationalization, an anthropological perspective is not an option but a necessity.
The world is now gradually changing into an 'age of culture' with active international exchange.
Even in our own country, people from all over East Asia and the West are active in various fields as workers, athletes, and scholars, and the number of foreigners naturalizing in Korea is also increasing.
Accordingly, understanding the relative differences between cultures has become more important than ever for us.
Cultural anthropology is an academic discipline that seeks to elucidate the question, "What is human?" by comparatively studying the cultures of various peoples around the world.
'Cultural relativism', an important concept in cultural anthropology, is the position that we should understand the world's various cultures not through our own values or standards of superiority, but from the perspective of the people who live there. This is a concept that should be especially emphasized for modern people who encounter various cultures in the globalized era.
In this way, cultural anthropology is a very important discipline for humanistic thinking that allows us to view the world broadly.
However, it has been difficult to find an avenue through which the general public can easily and enjoyably access anthropology.
Experience the vivid field of cultural anthropology through ethnographic journals on various topics.
First published in 1998, 『Meeting Myself in an Unfamiliar Place』 is a book published by the Korean Society of Cultural Anthropology, which selected papers and books by renowned international scholars that well demonstrate the characteristics of cultural anthropology and edited them to make them easier to read for students and the general public.
Because of its unique structure and easy-to-understand content, which differ from typical introductory texts, this book has been widely read not only by college students entering cultural anthropology but also by high school students preparing for essay writing, and was also selected as a recommended book for high school Korean language classes by the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education.
In this revised and expanded edition, some difficult-to-understand or specialized content from previously published articles has been deleted, and new articles have been added to expand the scope of coverage.
We also added more related photos and redesigned the main text.
This book contains papers on various topics written by anthropologists who lived with local people, collected and organized data, and have been edited by the editors into essay format for easy understanding by anyone.
At the beginning of each chapter, the editors provide background and commentary on the text, helping readers new to anthropology understand the presented cases from a cultural anthropological perspective.
Features of this book
The first characteristic of this book is that it does not explain theories, but rather shows field research cases conducted by anthropologists.
Because of this, you can experience the vivid reality of the academic field called cultural anthropology.
Second, it subtly reveals each topic rather than explaining it directly.
Therefore, readers can think for themselves after reading the article and find plenty of material for discussion.
Although each paper is divided into chapters and topics, as is typical of cultural anthropology, which is characterized by a 'holistic approach', each article does not have just one topic, but also contains several different topics at the same time.
The basic perspective and approach of cultural anthropology is that each part of culture is deeply interrelated with other parts and therefore must be understood holistically.
If we look at culture from a relative and objective perspective, no culture can be evaluated as superior or inferior to our own.
After reading this book, you will realize that cultural superiority is merely a result of a lack of understanding of culture, and that if you apply the standard of "understanding," all cultures have the same value as your own.
The world is now gradually changing into an 'age of culture' with active international exchange.
Even in our own country, people from all over East Asia and the West are active in various fields as workers, athletes, and scholars, and the number of foreigners naturalizing in Korea is also increasing.
Accordingly, understanding the relative differences between cultures has become more important than ever for us.
Cultural anthropology is an academic discipline that seeks to elucidate the question, "What is human?" by comparatively studying the cultures of various peoples around the world.
'Cultural relativism', an important concept in cultural anthropology, is the position that we should understand the world's various cultures not through our own values or standards of superiority, but from the perspective of the people who live there. This is a concept that should be especially emphasized for modern people who encounter various cultures in the globalized era.
In this way, cultural anthropology is a very important discipline for humanistic thinking that allows us to view the world broadly.
However, it has been difficult to find an avenue through which the general public can easily and enjoyably access anthropology.
Experience the vivid field of cultural anthropology through ethnographic journals on various topics.
First published in 1998, 『Meeting Myself in an Unfamiliar Place』 is a book published by the Korean Society of Cultural Anthropology, which selected papers and books by renowned international scholars that well demonstrate the characteristics of cultural anthropology and edited them to make them easier to read for students and the general public.
Because of its unique structure and easy-to-understand content, which differ from typical introductory texts, this book has been widely read not only by college students entering cultural anthropology but also by high school students preparing for essay writing, and was also selected as a recommended book for high school Korean language classes by the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education.
In this revised and expanded edition, some difficult-to-understand or specialized content from previously published articles has been deleted, and new articles have been added to expand the scope of coverage.
We also added more related photos and redesigned the main text.
This book contains papers on various topics written by anthropologists who lived with local people, collected and organized data, and have been edited by the editors into essay format for easy understanding by anyone.
At the beginning of each chapter, the editors provide background and commentary on the text, helping readers new to anthropology understand the presented cases from a cultural anthropological perspective.
Features of this book
The first characteristic of this book is that it does not explain theories, but rather shows field research cases conducted by anthropologists.
Because of this, you can experience the vivid reality of the academic field called cultural anthropology.
Second, it subtly reveals each topic rather than explaining it directly.
Therefore, readers can think for themselves after reading the article and find plenty of material for discussion.
Although each paper is divided into chapters and topics, as is typical of cultural anthropology, which is characterized by a 'holistic approach', each article does not have just one topic, but also contains several different topics at the same time.
The basic perspective and approach of cultural anthropology is that each part of culture is deeply interrelated with other parts and therefore must be understood holistically.
If we look at culture from a relative and objective perspective, no culture can be evaluated as superior or inferior to our own.
After reading this book, you will realize that cultural superiority is merely a result of a lack of understanding of culture, and that if you apply the standard of "understanding," all cultures have the same value as your own.
GOODS SPECIFICS
- Date of issue: August 25, 2006
- Page count, weight, size: 398 pages | 664g | 148*210*30mm
- ISBN13: 9788933705001
- ISBN10: 8933705007
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