Essay questions SA1001
Deadline October 4th
1, 500 essay
Choose one of the following questions:
•
What can an anthropological perspective tell
us about love?
•
What are the differences between gifts and
commodities?
Most of the references are online. You can have access to
them via the library. Use two examples to support your
answer. Remember that we want to hear your voice, but at the
same time we want you to use ethnographic examples to
support your answer.
Good luck!
Bibliography that you can use for question 1.
Helene Neveu-Kringelbach. 2016. "Marrying Out" for Love:
Women's Narratives of Polygyny and Alternative Marriage
Choices in Contemporary Senegal. African Studies
Review 59(1): 155-174.
Cabezas, Amalia L. 2004. “Between Love and Money: Sex,
Tourism, and Citizenship in Cuba and the Dominican
Republic.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture & Society 29
(4): 987–1015.
Cole, Jennifer, Lynn M. Thomas, and Oxford University
Press. 2009. Love in Africa [Electronic Resource]. University
Press Scholarship Online. Chicago, Ill; London: University of
Chicago Press.
Carrier‐Moisan, Marie-Eve. 2018. “‘I Have to Feel
Something’: Gringo Love in the Sexual Economy of Tourism
in Natal, Brazil.” The Journal of Latin American and
Caribbean Anthropology 23 (1): 131–51.
Gell, Alfred (2011) On love. Anthropology of this century, 2.
Online resource
William Jankowiak & Edward Fischer (1992), “A crosscultural perspective on romantic love”, Ethnology 31(2): 14955.
Padilla, Mark, Jennifer S. Hirsch, Miguel Muñoz-Laboy,
Robert Sember, and Richard G. Parker. 2007. Love and
Globalization: Transformations of Intimacy in the
Contemporary World. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press.
Yunxiang Yan (2003), “Youth autonomy and romance in
courtship”, ch.2 of Private life under socialism, Stanford:
SUP, pp.42-63 (see also ch. 3).
Laura Rival (2008), “What kind of sex makes people happy?”,
in R. Astuti, J. Parry & C. Stafford (eds), Questions of
anthropology, Oxford: Berg, pp. 167-196.
Fenella Cannell (1999), “Marriage stories: speaking of
reluctance and control”, ch. 1 of Power and intimacy in the
Christian Philippines, Cambridge: CUP, pp.29-47.
Laura Ahearn (2011), Invitations to love: literacy, love letters
and social change in Nepal, Ann Arbor: Michigan University
Press.
Jennifer Cole & Lynn Thomas (eds.) (2009), Love in Africa,
Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Dorothy Holland & Margaret Eisenhart (1992), Educated in
romance: women, achievement and college culture, Chicago:
University of Chicago Press.
Lila Abu-Lughod (1999), Veiled sentiments: honor and poetry
in a Bedouin society, Berkeley: University of California Press.
Bibliography that you can use for question 2:
Gutierrez Garza, Ana P. 2019. Care for Sale: An Ethnography
of Latin American Domestic and Sex
Workers in London. Chapter 5 The intimacy of the gift.
Oxford University Press: New York. Pdf provided.
Carrier, James. 1991. “Gifts, Commodities, and Social
Relations: A Maussian View of Exchange.”
Sociological Forum 6(1): 119–36.
Pipyrou, Stavroula. 2014. “Altruism and Sacrifice: Mafia Free
Gift Giving in South Italy.” Anthropological Forum 24 (4).
Routledge: 412–26.
Scheper‐Hughes, Nancy. 2000. “The Global Traffic in Human
Organs.” Current Anthropology 41 (2): 191-224.
Kato, Masae. 2014. “Giving a Gift to the Gift: Women’s
Experiences of Embryo Donation in Japan.”
Anthropological Forum 24 (4). Routledge: 351–63.
Zelizer, Viviana A. 1996. “Payments and Social Ties.”
Sociological Forum 11 (3): 481–95.
Yan, Yunxiang. 1996. The Flow of Gifts: Reciprocity and
Social Networks in a Chinese Village.
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Sleeboom-Faulkner, Margaret. 2014. “The Twenty-FirstCentury Gift and the Co-Circulation of
Things.”Anthropological Forum 24 (4): 323–37.
Polese, Abel. 2014. “Informal Payments in Ukrainian
Hospitals: On the Boundary between Informal
Payments, Gifts, and Bribes.” Anthropological Forum 24 (4).
Routledge: 381–95.
Miller, D. 1995. “Consumption and Commodities.” Annual
Review of Anthropology 24 (1 1): 141–61.
Stan, Sabina. 2012. “Neither Commodities nor Gifts: PostSocialist Informal Exchanges in the Romanian Healthcare
System.” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 18
(1): 65–82