This paper aims at eliminating the consumerist misunderstanding of travel prevalent in the academic field and reevaluating the ontological meaning of travel from the perspective of anthropology.As a kind of spatial displacement in geography,travel exists in the whole history of humankind,ranging from"Out of Africa"migration in the remote antiquity to the contemporary transnational flows of population.Travel,in the sense of anthropology,not only covers the variety of spatial movements such as ethnic migration,geographical exploration,military expedition,commercial trade and foreign communication,but also refers to the collision of human thought in performing these geographical activities,therefore reflecting the grand human progression.Thus,classical anthropology holds that the core of anthropology is travel,the oblivion of which is the amnesia of human history.
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