Social and Cultural Anthropology 考试技巧

常见错误

1. 1high涉及分数: 2The practice of anthropology

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

   如何避免: 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涉及分数: 4The practice of anthropology

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

   如何避免: Structure comparative essays around integrated, thematic criteria of comparison (similarities and differences) in each body paragraph, rather than writing two separate profiles.
3. 3medium涉及分数: 2The language of anthropology

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

   如何避免: 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涉及分数: 5The practice of anthropology

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

   如何避免: Explicitly identify a specific contemporary local event, movement, or policy context alongside your core ethnographic case to ground the abstract issue.
5. 5medium涉及分数: 4Anthropological thinking

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

   如何避免: 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涉及分数: 3Anthropological thinking

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

   如何避免: 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.