The World as Your Classroom: An Anthropologist's Toolkit for Meaningful Travel

✨ The World as Your Classroom

A digital field guide to seeing the world with new eyes

This self-guided PDF course blends travel with the tools of social anthropology to help you explore deeper, connect more meaningfully, and come home transformed.

Whether you're a backpacker, a slow traveler, or just someone who wants more than souvenirs from your journey, this guide offers practical wisdom for the road — and for life.

📘 What’s inside:

✅ 71 beautifully designed pages
✅ Tools and questions to reflect before, during & after your trip
✅ Short, easy-to-read chapters packed with insights
✅ Practical exercises for deeper engagement
✅ Real stories, cultural examples, and anthropological theory made accessible
✅ Inspiring quotes, clean design, and original illustrations
✅ Useful even in everyday life — not just while traveling

📚 Course content includes:

• What is social anthropology?
• Tools for the road (notebook, observation, conversation)
• Theories to see culture in new ways
• On-the-ground advice for mindful, respectful travel
• Integration and reflection after the journey
• Further reading & references for the curious
• Final thoughts to carry forward

💬 Created by Frank Hansen, PhD

Social anthropologist, travel enthusiast & founder of frankinasia.com

You don’t need a degree to think like an anthropologist. Just curiosity, openness — and a willingness to look a little closer.