ANT Final

ANT 3034 FINAL EXAM NAME:

Please answer ONLY 3 of the following questions to the best of your ability referencing the course materials as appropriate with proper citations. Each answer should be about 1-2 pages in length, double-spaced, using the formatting in the Word document available in the Module. Simply type your answers below the questions and submit the document to assignment drop.

1) How do symbolic and interpretive anthropologists view culture? What are some similarities and differences between the approaches developed by Douglas, Turner, and Geertz and how do their approaches help them explain the cultural phenomena they are analyzing in their essays? Support your answer with evidence from the readings in McGee and Warms!

2) What is the postmodern critique of knowledge-making in anthropology and how is this based in Foucault’s notion of discourse? Discuss how two anthropologists (not Foucault) use Foucault’s notion of discourse to explain the cultural phenomena they are analyzing in their essays. Support your answer with evidence from the readings in McGee and Warms or in the course modules!

3) What is practice theory and how does it attempt to resolve issues of agency and structure in explaining cultural phenomena? Discuss how two anthropologists (not Bourdieu) use practice theory to explain the cultural phenomena they are analyzing in their essays. Support your answer with evidence from the readings in McGee and Warms or in the course modules!

4) What is the feminist critique of anthropology and how has it challenged anthropological practice while improving anthropological claims about gendered experiences? Discuss how two anthropologists address gender in their essays, not only as a challenge to typical anthropological practice, but also as a way to explain the cultural phenomena they are analyzing. Support your answer with evidence from the readings in McGee and Warms or in the course modules!

5) According to the readings, what is globalization and how is it different from past human experience? How are cultures viewed in the age of globalization and how does this differ from the way in which cultures were viewed in the time of Franz Boas? Discuss how two anthropologists place the cultural phenomena they are analyzing within the framework of globalization to achieve a richer explanation of what they are observing. Support your answer with evidence from the readings in McGee and Warms or in the course module!

Attached is the books we have read, the powerpoints used and a answered FINAL example by another person.

Readings in each module: 

Module 1: Symbolic and Interpretive Anthropology

-Readings

Moore: 181-210 (Turner; Geertz; Douglas)

McGee & Warms: 435-490 (Douglas; Turner; Geertz)

Module 2: Post-Modernism: Discourse, Power, and Knowledge

-Readings

Moore: 321-325; 355-370 (Latour); 371-376 (Postscript)

McGee & Warms: 491-495; 513-526 (Foucault); 527-566 (Rosaldo; Hansen)

Additional Readings: Rabinow; Said

Module 3: Practice Theory: Agency and Structure

-Readings

Moore: 211-241 (Ortner; Bourdieu); 258-273 (Sahlins)

McGee & Warms: 496-512 (Bourdieu); 669-710 (Bourgois; Ortner; Gomberg-Muñoz)

Additional Readings: Ortner, postmoderninsm erickson and murphy

Module 4: Feminism and Gender

-Readings

Moore: 158-164 (Leacock)

McGee & Warms: 405-434 (Slocum; Leacock); 565-610 (Abu-Lughod; Valentine; Wardlow)

Additional Readings: Ortner; Boellstorff, Erickson and murphy feminism and gender

Module 5: Globalization and Migration

-Readings

McGee & Warms: 611-668 (Appadurai, Bestor, Friedman and Friedman)

Additional Readings: Glick-Schiller; Mahler; Scheper-Hughes; Wimmer