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Social and Cultural Anthropology
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Free Social and Cultural Anthropology study notes for IB Diploma Programme (DP) - SL & HL students. Each chapter below covers a key topic with worked examples and practice prompts you can take into the thinka app.
Engaging with anthropology
Engaging with ethnography - Group 1
Part 1: Engaging with anthropology
The language of anthropology
The practice of anthropology: the ethnographic method
Fieldwork, participant observation and data collection
Qualitative and quantitative data, analysis and interpretation
Ethical issues in anthropological research
Anthropological thinking: theories
Reading and situating ethnographic material
The nine key concepts
Belief and knowledge
Change
Culture
Identity
Materiality
Power
Social relations and society
Symbolism
Engaging with ethnography - Group 2
Engaging with ethnography - Group 3
The "big" anthropological questions
What is culture?
What does it mean to be a person?
What does it mean to live in society?
How are we the same and different from each other?
Why does anthropology matter?
To what extent is knowing others possible?
Areas of inquiry - Group 1
Classifying the world
Health, illness and healing
The body
Areas of inquiry - Group 2
Belonging
Communication, expression and technology
Movement, time and space
Areas of inquiry - Group 3
Conflict
Development
Production, exchange and consumption
Anthropological practice and examination skills
Paper 1: description and application of concepts
Paper 1: analysis and interpretation of an unseen text
Paper 1: comparison with other ethnographic material
Paper 1 HL section B: anthropological ethics
Paper 2 section A: concept, area of inquiry and real-world issue
Paper 2 section B: arguing from an area of inquiry
Part 3: Engaging in anthropological practice (fieldwork)
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