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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. Page 1 of 2 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. _____________ Page 2 of 2