Download MAY 2013 SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY SA1002

MAY 2013
SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY
MODULE CODE:
SA1002
MODULE TITLE:
Ways of Thinking
EXAM DURATION:
2 Hours
EXAM INSTRUCTIONS
Candidates should answer TWO questions, no
more than ONE from each part.
Do not overlap your answers to different
questions.
Ethnographic examples should be used to
illustrate all your answers.
PLEASE DO NOT TURN OVER THIS EXAM PAPER UNTIL YOU ARE
INSTRUCTED TO DO SO.
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PART 1
1.
Why and how did Morgan invent kinship?
2.
How do different kinship systems encode propositions about the
world?
3.
Is there anything universal in human kinship systems?
PART 2
4.
Ideas about reproduction are also ideas about gender. Discuss.
5.
Why do anthropologists argue that scientific knowledge of the body is
cultural?
PART 3
6.
Are animals good to think or good to eat? Discuss in relation to the
work of at least two anthropologists.
7.
To what extent are representations of time connected to the way in
which people produce a living for themselves in society?
8.
How have anthropologists argued that colour terms in other societies
are a product of cultural rather than biological or physical phenomena?
PART 4
9.
People who speak radically different languages perceive and think
about the world quite differently. Discuss.
10.
What is writing according to Boone? How do Amerindian forms of
graphic communication challenge traditional understandings of writing?
Answer with reference to at least two different Amerindian cultures.
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