Anthropology › Section T · Anthropology on the ground › Topic T.1
Our challenging world today
Climate change, displacement, inequality and the loss of languages and species are global problems that people live locally. This closing section turns anthropology's tools on them, starting with the idea that humanity's accumulated knowledge, the ethnosphere, is one of our greatest resources.
In this topic
- A global problem at the bakery
- Connected challenges
- Unequal impacts
- Worked example: tracing the bread chain
- Three diversities in decline
- The ethnosphere
- We have faced change before
- Worked example: reviving a language
- Assets for the future
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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