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Farrah Jarral tells the intriguing and unexpected story of anthropology, and examines how a discipline which started studying the so-called 'savage' other has now turned its gaze on every society.

In this first omnibus edition Farrah begins her travels in the East End of London with one of the classic jokes in anthropology. She then hears how anthropology emerged out of colonialism, and how some anthropologists embraced eugenics. But as she tells the story of three of the twentieth century's most influential anthropologists - Franz Boas, Bronislaw Malinowksi and Margaret Mead - she also discovers how anthropology affected the way we think about the most profound questions of human identity, including race and gender.

Producer: Giles Edwards.