Anthropology is nothing if it is not a particular way of describing the world. Yet what is most precious to it – the terms and concepts that mark it as a discipline – can also be the most tricky. When resurgent boundaries and exclusions twist truth telling and faking in any which way, anthropology might find a new urgency in thinking about the conceptual life it tries to express. How it engages has always depended on (attention to) how terms are used, something shared with those who people its subject matter. Critical attention has never been more important. An exploration into the colourings and resonances of diverse verbal usages, old and new, points to moments where language works both with us and against us. Indeed supports for xenophobia and the like may be embedded where least expected. Out of it all, the lecture imagines a future for anthropological exposition. There could be no better place to start than in EASA's many-languaged company.

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如果人类学不是一种描述世界的特殊方式，那么它就什么都不是。然而，它最宝贵的东西——将其标记为一门学科的术语和概念——也可能是最棘手的。当重新出现的界限和排斥以任何方式扭曲真相的陈述和伪造时，人类学可能会发现思考它试图表达的概念生活的新紧迫性。它如何参与始终取决于（注意）术语的使用方式，与主题的人共享的东西。批判性关注从未如此重要。对新旧各种语言用法的色彩和共鸣的探索指出了语言对我们有利也不利的时刻。事实上，对仇外心理等的支持可能嵌入在最意想不到的地方。其中，讲座设想了人类学展览的未来。没有比 EASA 的多语言公司更好的起点了。