SENSATIONAL SEGUE.

Instead, one is better to view the human geography in this area through a kind of customary kaleidoscope in which a small rotation of focus reveals different patterns of connection between people and land.

— Scott Cane

Anthropology is a distinctive project, critically orientated to interrogation of how things work and how people construct and are shaped by the worlds they live in.

— Francesca Merlan

A tree
doesn’t know it’s a tree.
It doesn’t know how pretty its flowers are,
or how beautiful they smell,
or how soft and sweet its fruit is.
It can’t feel how warm I am with my arms around it.
It can’t hear me when I tell it these things.
It doesn’t know anything.
I’m glad you’re not a tree.

— Charlie Bucktin (JasperJones - Craig Silvey)

But, see, that’s what I reckon God really is, Charlie. It’s that part inside me that’s stronger and harder than anything else. And I reckon prayer is just trustin in it, havin faith in it, just askin meself to be tough. And that’s all you can do. I don’t need a bunch of bullshit stories about towers and boats and floods or rules about sin. It’s all just a complicated way to get to that place in you, and it’s not honest either. I don’t need to trick meself into thinkin anyone else is listenin, or even cares. Because it doesn’t matter. I matter. And I know I’ll be alright. Because I got a good heart, and fuck this town for makin me try to believe otherwise.

— Jasper Jones (by Craig Silvey)

I hope you live a life you’re proud of.
And if you find that you are not,
I hope you have the strength
to start all over again.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

The most exciting aspect of anthropology is, for me, the business of interpretation of patterns of both structure and culture that leads on to the discovery of those latent processes that, while generally uncomprehended, are, nonetheless, essential to the conduct of social life.

— Basil Sansom