Travel and Displacement
The idea of travel captures our imagination; it opens up possibilities of change, adventure, and perhaps even personal growth. But this is travel that is planned, intended, and carried on for fun. What happens when we are compelled to travel or find ourselves displaced within our own homeland? Three films in this year’s international Festival of Anthropology Films take up the question of travel and displacement. The Strangers of the Inca Trail takes us into the world of youthful trekkers – Australians, North Americans, Europeans, coming together to form a…read more