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SPEAKER 1: For me anthropology
is the study of humanity, method,
as well as a lot of theory and
theorizing about what that means,
what it means to live with other
people, and how that unfolds.
SPEAKER 2: I consider anthropology to
be one of the most important things
in the world.
SPEAKER 3: It is always
capable of giving us
forms of otherness, forms
of different ways of living,
that we can use to hone our own culture.
SPEAKER 1: It's designed to
give people an idea, who don't
have a background in anthropology.
What is anthropology?
SPEAKER 4: The fact is that all human
beings are, in some sense, the same.
We're all members of the same species.
We have millions of years of evolution
that has made us what we are today.
SPEAKER 1: We follow
anthropologists from the University
of Queensland into the field
and actually document fieldwork.
How do anthropologists do what they do?
SPEAKER 5: Because so much
of the fieldwork experience
is about embodied experience,
living there, being there,
smelling it, doing it.
SPEAKER 6: You can
step out of that world
that you're in that seems
like your own universe
and be somewhere completely different.
SPEAKER 7: An ability to
make the strange familiar
and the familiar strange.
And that's the classic
what anthropologists do.
SPEAKER 8: We talk to
the people one-on-one.
And we collect stories about
what it's actually like.
SPEAKER 2: We can discuss difference in
the world in a way that is substantive.
SPEAKER 9: A view from the ground up
instead of a view from the top down.
SPEAKER 10: Anthropology
is not innocent.
SPEAKER 3: Anthropology.
SPEAKER 5: Anthropology.
SPEAKER 6: Of anthropology.
SPEAKER 11: Of anthropology.
SPEAKER 4: Anthropology.
SPEAKER 12: Anthropology.
SPEAKER 9: Anthropology.
SPEAKER 13: With anthropology.
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SPEAKER 2: I think without it we're
in more trouble than we think we are.
SPEAKER 1: It's all
around us all the time.
Anthropology is the study of humanity
in all its variety and difference.
It is really the study about
others to reflect upon ourselves.
SPEAKER 14: That's anthropology.
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