Write 2 exam questions

Exam questions

Part I: comparisons between key monographs:

1. Is knowledge determined by society? OR: Are people everywhere «rational» in the same way?
2. Why are there «different atheroscleroses» but only one witchcraft?
3. What does difference in fieldwork and ethnographic analysis in Evans-Pritchard and Mol tell us about the history of anthropology?
4. What is common and what is different between scientific theory causation and witchcraft (as it is analysed by Evans-Pritchard)?

Part II: comparison between readings other than the key monographs:

5. “Beliefs ...work only when they are shared” (Durkheim). Discuss with reference to religion, magic AND science.
6. Discuss the concept of performativity in the context of religion AND / OR science AND / OR magic.
7. What technologies of persuasion can be used in science, religion and / or magic? Give two ethnographic examples from the course readings.
8. How, if at all, the concept of liminality AND / OR agency proved useful in understanding how cultural categories are organised and manipulated in ritual context?
9. Discuss science AND / OR religion AND / OR magic in terms of two or more of the following approaches:
- performative theory
- ontological turn
- symbolic anthropology
- Durkheim’s approach
Will tell about only two of this questions to be solved on 16 May 23:55. 19 May 21:55 is submission deadline for exam essays.
this exam is essay-long discussion of randomly selected two questions from the list of exam questions. Exam asks students to debate across empirical material and different approaches covered in the course. Specifically, in answering each of these questions, students are required to use at least three individual pieces of marked* key readings from this course syllabus and not to repeat material in discussion of each of the two questions.

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