Essay

Word Count: 2500 words (+ / - 10%)

  • The study of the material world is integral to an anthropological

understanding of culture and society. Discuss with reference to examples

from the anthropology of ritual, the anthropology of kinship, the

anthropology of the body and/or the anthropology of institutions.

  • Understanding human culture requires attention to social relations and

connections in all their complexity. Discuss with reference to examples from

the anthropology of kinship and/or the anthropology of institutions.

  • How central do you consider bodily experience to be to understanding

power and resistance across social contexts? Discuss with reference to

examples from institutional contexts.

  • To understand social systems anthropologists must attend to the role of

symbolic boundaries. Discuss with reference to examples such as ritual

practices and everyday spaces.

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at least 8 academic sources\

fine to draw these sources from term one or other modules, but the essay should

engage substantively with readings and debates from the second term of the

module.

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  1. The study of the material world is integral to an anthropological understanding of culture and society. Discuss with reference to examples from the anthropology of ritual, the anthropology of kinship, the anthropology of the body and/or the anthropology of institutions.

We're inviting you to write about any combination of institutions, ritual, kinship and/or the body. There's no expectation that you write about ritual, kinship and the body together in your answer (though you can!). Similarly in question four, you can talk about either ritual practices or everyday spaces or some combination of the two (possibly how symbolic boundaries help construct the difference between the ritual and the everyday in the first place).

While I have you here, I just wanted to underline that the questions are designed to encourage and reward students who think across the different topics and weeks of the module--especially when they do so in creative ways. You should also feel free to draw on readings from term one (or any other module you're taking), but please do engage with the readings from term two of the module even if your point is that you think other readings are more useful.  

My philosophy here is that this is a first year survey module and I want to give you an opportunity to formulate your own question as much as possible so that you can write about the things that interest you while giving just enough structure to make sure that your answer demonstrates mastery of the module's intended learning outcomes. We'll be talking more about this in seminars as we approach the end of term, though

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