Social and Cultural Anthropology 試験対策

よくあるミス

1. 1high影響する配点: 2The practice of anthropology

   Failing to fully identify the comparative ethnography (missing researcher name, fieldwork location, group studied, or fieldwork context) in comparative essays.

   回避方法: Use the acronym R-L-G-C (Researcher, Location, Group, Context) in your opening paragraph to ensure all four metadata elements are explicitly stated and to avoid the automatic 8/10 mark cap.
2. 2high影響する配点: 4The practice of anthropology

   Describing comparative ethnographies sequentially (the 'list then list' approach) instead of comparing and contrasting them systematically throughout the essay.

   回避方法: Structure comparative essays around integrated, thematic criteria of comparison (similarities and differences) in each body paragraph, rather than writing two separate profiles.
3. 3medium影響する配点: 2The language of anthropology

   Using everyday or common-sense definitions for key concepts like 'power', 'status', 'personhood', or 'community'.

   回避方法: Anchor concepts in formal, scholarly anthropological definitions (e.g., status as Weberian social honor, power as systemic, structural, or productive of subjectivities, and personhood as culturally/institutionally constructed).
4. 4high影響する配点: 5The practice of anthropology

   Failing to ground the chosen real-world issue in Paper 2 Section A with a concrete, contemporary, real-world example.

   回避方法: Explicitly identify a specific contemporary local event, movement, or policy context alongside your core ethnographic case to ground the abstract issue.
5. 5medium影響する配点: 4Anthropological thinking

   Treating the 'big question' in Paper 1 Question 5 as an afterthought rather than making it the conceptual backbone of the response.

   回避方法: Make the Big Anthropological Question the central ontological argument of your essay, systematically analyzing both the provided text and your secondary ethnographic material through its lens from the introduction onward.
6. 6medium影響する配点: 3Anthropological thinking

   Equating agency to absolute free will, overlooking the crucial structural constraints and inequalities highlighted in the text.

   回避方法: Always balance discussions of individual agency with an analysis of underlying social, political, or economic structures (like racism or post-colonial dominance) that limit action.