The article contextualizes the educational, political and social context in which the International Baccalaureate (IB) diploma programme was established and describes the place of social anthropology within the general aims of the diploma programme as a whole. The article then discusses the current diploma curriculum for social and cultural anthropology and the issues arising from this for the teaching and learning of anthropology in a global context, including teacher support and comparisons with other national pre-university educational qualifications. Some of the perceptions of the IB diploma among teachers, students and parents are also briefly discussed.
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Anthropology and the International Baccalaureate
History, Practice and Future Challenges
Marzia Balzani
In Anthropology in Action
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2010
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 60–71 (11 total)
Social and cultural anthropology. The key concepts (2nd edn) by Rapport, Nigel and Joanna Overing
ANNE SIGFRID GRØNSETH
In Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
- Published (Print):
- 01 May 2009
- Article Type:
- Book Review
- Pages:
- 258–259 (1 total)
Who owns Siberian ethnography?
A critical assessment of a re-internationalized field
Patty Gray, Nikolai Vakhtin, and Peter Schweitzer
Although Siberian ethnography was an open and international field at the turn of the twentieth century, from about 1930 until the late 1980s Siberia was for the most part closed to foreigners and therefore to Western ethnographers. This allowed Soviet ethnographers to establish a virtual monopoly on Siberian field sites. Soviet and Western anthropology developed during that period in relative isolation from one another, allowing methodologies and theoretical approaches to diverge. During glasnost' and after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Siberian field was reopened and field studies were conducted by several Western ethnographers. The resulting encounter between Western and former Soviet ethnographers in the 1980s and 1990s produced a degree of cultural shock as well as new challenges and opportunities on both sides. This is an experiential account of the mood of these newly reunited colleagues at the turn of the twenty-first century.
Book Reviews
Andreea Lazea and Felix Girke
Social and Cultural Anthropology. The Key Concepts. By Nigel Rapport and Joanna Overing, London, New York: Routledge (Key Guides), 2007, ISBN-10: 0415181569, ISBN-13: 978-0415181563.
Creativity and Cultural Improvisation. By Elizabeth Hallam and Tim Ingold (eds.). Oxford, New York: Berg (ASA Monographs 44), 2007, ISBN 978-184520-527-0.
In Anthropology in Action
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2009
- Article Type:
- Book Review
- Pages:
- 78–80 (2 total)
Reviews
Book review in this article . By Thomas J. Scheff. . Oxford: Oxford University Press. Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology. 1998. 250 pp. Hb.: £30. ISBN 0 19 823380 9. . By J. S. La Fontaine. . By Sarah Franklin. . By Ian McLean. . By Carola Lentz. By Jean M. O'Brien.
In Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
- Published (Print):
- 01 Feb 2000
- Article Type:
- Book Review
- Pages:
- 79–89 (10 total)
Reviews
Book Reviewed in this article: The political lives of dead bodies. By Katherine Verdery. Social and cultural anthropology. The key concepts. By Nigel Rapport and Joanna Overing. Branchements. Anthropologie de l'universalité des cultures. By Jean‐Loup Amselle. Moral disagreements. Classic and contemporary readings. Edited by Christopher Gowans. A world of fine difference. The social architecture of a modern Irish village. By Adrian Pearce. Therapy across cultures. By Inge‐Britt Krause. Emotions and the social bond.
In Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
- Published (Print):
- 01 Oct 2001
- Article Type:
- Review Article
- Pages:
- 355–364 (9 total)
Personal Recollections of Durkheim, Mauss, the Family and Others
Claudette Kennedy, W. S. F. Pickering, and Nick Allen
The late Mrs Claudette Kennedy was a niece of Mauss and a great niece of Durkheim. On 1 September 1992, Bill Pickering (WP) and Nick Allen (NA) – of the then recently formed British Centre for Durkheimian Studies at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Oxford University – met Claudette Kennedy (CK) in her house in Oxford and recorded a conversation with her. She had certain firm memories of Emile Durkheim, her great uncle, but more of Marcel Mauss. In all probability, she was the only person then alive with such memories, especially those of Durkheim. Pierre Mauss might have had recollections of Marcel Mauss but his memory was said to be failing.
In Durkheimian Studies
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2010
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 36–56 (21 total)
Afterword
Ethnography between the Virtue of Patience and the Anxiety of Belatedness Once Coevalness Is Embraced
George Marcus
In view of this issue's focus on time and temporalities, I want to discuss a distinctive problem concerning the ethnographic representation of fieldwork experiences. Faced with increased time pressure to complete degree work and the present trend that emphasizes efficiency in graduate training, scholars are finding traditional ideals of temporality in research to be challenged as a professional standard of ethnography at the outset of their careers. To me, this compelling development in the current evolution of social and cultural anthropology needs detailed discussion in reassessing the norms of the long-established ethos of anthropological research.
Corruption in the Context of the European Welfare State
Ethnological Perspectives
Dieter Haller
This essay explores what Ethnologie (social and cultural anthropology) can contribute to the study of corruption. It firstly lays bare basic approaches of the study of corruption by conventional political and social sciences and influential political agents such as Transparency International. In these approaches, corruption is shaped by a variety of assumptions: that corruption takes place between the public and a private sphere, that it is an indicator of instability and that it is morally reprehensibly and therefore a clandestine activity. The essay expands on these assumptions from the anthropological point of view, thereby detecting blind spots in the conventional approaches. Finally, by discussing four examples, the essay seeks to show how Ethnologie can enrich other approaches to social scientific corruption research with a genuine contribution.
In Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2008
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 130–144 (14 total)
Tourism and Applied Anthropology in Theory and Praxis
Kevin A. Yelvington
Academic social and cultural anthropology concerned with tourism has provided thick descriptions of the tourist exchange in a number of contexts, with exegeses devoted to illustrate the sexualized Other, the appropriation of landscape, the uses of the past in the present, and the detrimental effects of tourism structures on the ‘host’ communities. It has shown us how pilgrimages, beaches and museums become iconic and fetishized in the tourist’s gaze, how the landscape is appropriated and a geographical space is turned into a cultural place. Yet, for applied anthropologists concerned with the impacts of the world’s largest industry on local ‘toured’ populations and how the (unequal) tourism exchange is (unequally) constituted through material and symbolic historical processes, do the theories generated in the academic tradition provide a use-value? Do those anthropologists engaged in community-centred methods such as participatory action research, and working in theoretical traditions through praxis, approach their subject in the same ways as their nonapplied anthropological counterparts? Indeed, what can applied anthropologists, as such, and the consideration of applied projects, contribute to theory in anthropological research on tourism more generally?