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SAN 1 EXAMINER REPORTS - Coggle Diagram
SAN 1 EXAMINER REPORTS
COMMENDED
GENERAL
depth of knowledge, theoretical and ethnographic
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clear presentation of ideas, coherent organisation
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better to depart from prepared scripts, think on feet consistently, draw on material across the paper
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actual and explicit statements of language's properties from philosophers and linguists and the transposition of these properties onto anthropologist accounts
repurposing reading from one part of the course to answer a question from a different part of the course
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CRITICISMS
GENERAL
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failing to grasp the need to avoid sweeping generalisations and reference specific named works and authors, grounding knowledge in relevant literature
confusion with the distinction between symbol and meaning, and links between structuralism and linguistics
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overcautiousness, confining themselves to conventional topics
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running out of time, prioritising two out of three essays
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thinner ethnographic argument, less focussed argument
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face-value adoption of the prompt's terms, developing a similar face-value answer
failing to acknowledge the specific names paradigms or paradigmatic topics in the history of anthropology that is being hinted at in the question
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having an ambiguous or generic structure that you are using for everything so that if you swap out the words it could answer anything
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opinionated rants on current political issues in substitution for knowledge of subject and addressing question
TOPIC
BEMBA
a misunderstanding of the matrilineal puzzle, writing as if the Bemba were in a state of bemusement in the 1930s
APPROACH
breadth of types of argument, using theory like a tool kit
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POPULAR
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FIRST
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essay on gifts vs commodities, exchange
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food, bodies, houses as symbolic
sex is a biological given, gender is a cultural variable
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