introduction what is social anthropology? - University of St Andrews

In this tutorial, students are expected to draw from their own experiences to discuss the
relative merits of backpacking and the gap year trip. Whose lives are transformed by these
experiences?
• Simpson K. 2005. Dropping Out or Signing Up? The Professionalisation of Youth Travel. In:
Antipode, pp.447‐469.
• Sørensen A., 2003. Backpacker Ethnography. In: Annals of Tourism Research, 30(4), pp.847‐
867.
TUTORIAL 9
Why does it make analytical sense to include children in anthropological studies of social
processes? What are the arguments against ‘the anthropology of childhood’?
• Robertson, A.F. The development of meaning: Ontogeny and culture. Journal of the Royal
Anthropological Institute (N.S.) 2, 591‐610. 1996.
• Christina Toren, Do babies have culture? Anthropological Quarterly, Volume 77, Number
1, Winter 2004, pp. 167‐179. George Washington University Institute for Ethnographic
Research.
• Christina Toren, ‘An anthropology of human development: what difference does it make?’
In Alan Fogel, Barbara King and Stuart Shanker, Eds. Human Development in the Twenty‐
First Century. A Dynamic Systems Approach to the Life Sciences, Cambridge University
Press, 2007.
TUTORIAL 10
What can we learn about the centrality of kinship for anthropology from ethnographic studies
that focus on children?
• Peter Gow. ‘Helpless. The Affective Preconditions of Piro Social Life’, in Joanna Overing and
Alan Passes (eds) The Anthropology of Love and Hate: the Aesthetics of Conviviality in
Native Amazonia, London, Routledge. 2000.
• Christina Toren, ‘Compassion for one another: constituting kinship as intentionality in Fiji’,
1996 Malinowski Lecture, the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, (N.S.) 5, 265‐
280 September, 1999.
• Viegas, Susana de Matos. “Eating with Your Favourite Mother: Time and Sociality in a
South Amerindian Community (South of Bahia/Brazil).” Journal of the Royal
Anthropological Institute 9, no. 1: 21–37, 2003.
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