[MUSIC PLAYING]
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 way 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 field work 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 whole universe,
and be somewhere completely different.
SPEAKER 7: An ability to
make the strange familiar,
and the familiar strange.
Right?
That's the classic,
what anthropologists do.
SPEAKER 1: 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 8: A view from the ground up,
in sort of a view from the top down.
SPEAKER 9: Anthropology is not innocent.
SPEAKER: Anthropology.
SPEAKER: Anthropology.
SPEAKER 6: Anthropology.
SPEAKER: Anthropology.
SPEAKER: Anthropology.
SPEAKER: Anthropology.
SPEAKER 8: Anthropology.
SPEAKER: Anthropology.
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, as the study of humanity,
in all its variety and difference,
is really the study about others,
to reflect upon ourselves.
SPEAKER: That's anthropology.
