Watch the film and answer these questions:
Link: Film: The Anthropologist (2015) (Links to an external site.)
“The Anthropologist” examines climate change like no other film before. The fate of the planet is considered from the perspective of American teenager Katie Crate. Over the course of five years, she travels alongside her mother Susie, an anthropologist studying the impact of climate change on indigenous communities.
Their journey parallels that of renowned anthropologist Margaret Mead, who for decades sought to understand how global change affects remote cultures.
Answer the following questions
1)Why do you think the filmmakers choose to focus on climate change from the perspective of 14 year-old Katie Crate?
2)Describe at least three effects of climate change on the people, the landscape, and the communities in places like Siberia (Russia), the islands of Kiribati (Papua New Guinea), the US south, and the mountains of Peru?
3)What role do anthropologists like Susie Crate play in understanding climate change? Why does Susie Crate believe that anthropologists make natural activists? How do the methods of anthropology lend themselves to understanding people’s relationship to the environment?
4)What are some of the ways various peoples around the world explain the changes they are seeing and how are they responding? Are there lessons we can learn from others?
