Anthropology › Section T · Anthropology on the ground › Topic T.2
Why anthropology matters
Anthropology's breadth, its values and its habit of listening before judging make it unusually useful for a connected world. This topic gathers the course's threads into a case for why the discipline matters now.
In this topic
- When listening saved lives
- A uniquely wide lens
- Anthropological values
- Diversity as adaptation
- The human capacity to change
- Records that cannot be replaced
- Relativism 2.0
- Worked example: a quiet new colleague
- Worked example: the Ebola burials
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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