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DECEMBER 2012 SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY MODULE CODE: SA4862 MODULE TITLE: Imagining the World: The Anthropology of Consciousness EXAM INSTRUCTIONS: Time allowed: From 19:00 on 12/12/12 to 23:59 on 14/12/12 Penalty for lateness: 1 point for every ten minutes late after deadline time. Candidates should answer THREE questions, each a maximum of 1000 words in length. Ethnographic examples should be used to illustrate all your answers. Students should not make use of any previous coursework submitted for this module. Responses should be uploaded to MMS: https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/mms/ Page 1 of 2 1. Ideas of the person and ideas of the world are mutually constituted. Discuss. 2. Intersubjectivity is the ground for the constitution of the self as subject. Discuss. 3. How do studies of spatiotemporal ideas help us to understand consciousness? 4. Emotion and cognition are aspects of one another. Discuss. 5. What is problematic about the idea that ‘sex is given, gender is a cultural construction’? 6. Language structures consciousness. Discuss. 7. Ritual and myth result from the movement of thought in two different and complementary directions. Why is this observation useful for an anthropology of consciousness? 8. Memory, as the process of remembering, is itself historically constituted. Discuss. ________________________ Page 2 of 2