Wozu Ethnologie | Why Anthropology Matters?

In this series of short video clips, anthropologists explain why anthropology is indispensable today. Starting from anthropology’s fundamental question—what it means to be human—they show how the discipline renders the familiar strange and the strange familiar. Especially in a world of growing complexity and profound difference, anthropology opens up perspectives that resist simple explanations and instead offer nuanced, relational analyses of social realities.
The series began at the DGSKA conference 2025 in Cologne, where Sebastian Eschenbach and Britta von der Behrens interviewed several colleagues about their work.