Doing Anthropology: A Guide By and For Students and Their Professors

Cover
Half Title
Frontispiece
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Figures
Tables
Contributors
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction
	Welcome!
		How Does That All Work for the Book, Exactly?
		Here’s Everything in a Nutshell
	Using Your Uncommon Sense
	First, What Is Common Sense?
		The First Kind of Common Sense
		The Second Kind of Common Sense
	Snot
	Finally! What Is Uncommon Sense?
	How to Tell the Difference Between Common and Uncommon Sense?
	Anthropology Basics
	Ethnography
	Complexifying Ethnography
	Complexifying ‘Cultural Groups’
	Ethnography On the Inside
	You Are a [research] Tool
	The Field
	Before You Read Chapter 2
	Notes
	References
2 Putting the Basics Together to Understand the University Anthropologically
	Some Orienting Notes to Get You Started
		Seeing the University Like a Culture
	Seeing the University Like a Culture You’ve Just Entered
	The Circumstances of Your Arrival Here
	Positions in the University
	A Core of Research
	Especial Time
	Especial Spaces, Surrounds and Buildings
	Especial Language
	Plagiarism – Let’s Make Some Uncommon Sense
		Uncommon-sense Idea #1
		Uncommon-sense Idea #2
		Uncommon-sense Idea #3
		Other Mapping Exercises
	Before You Read Chapter 3
	Notes
	References
3 Taking Notice, Taking Note: How Do Anthropologists Do Anthropology?
	Some Orienting Notes to Get You Started
		What’s the Uncommon Sense to Try to Get From this Chapter?
		What Can You Use this For?
		What Insights Can You Get Into the University By Thinking About How to Do Anthropology?
	Some Basics: Fieldnotes
	Being There
	The Fieldnotes Exercise: the Hard Parts
	Before You Read Chapter 4
	References
4 Rites, Rituals, Graduations and Cakes
	Some Orienting Notes to Get You Started
		What’s the Uncommon Sense to Try to Get From this Chapter?
		What Can You Use this For?
		What Insight Can You Get Into the University By Thinking With Rituals and Rites of Passage?
	The Work of Ritual
	Rites of Passage
	Before You Read Chapter 5
	Notes
	References
5 Kinship and Relatedness
	Some Orienting Notes to Get You Started
		What’s the Uncommon Sense to Try to Get From this Chapter?
		What Can You Use this For?
		What Insight Can You Get Into the University By Thinking With Kinship and Genealogies?
	Some Theory Basics: Descent and Alliance Theories
		Descent Theory
		Alliance Theory
	Systems of Relatedness
		Ego
		The Bilateral Kinship Network
		Kinship Systems of Descent
	Questioning Presumptions
	Family and Community
	Ethnicity – What Is It?
	The Ethnicity of Stockbrokers
	Qualities of Ethnicity
	Students – an Ethnic Group?
	Ethnicity Is Slippery
	Before You Read Chapter 6
	Notes
	References
6 Ethical Positions in Anthropology
	Some Orienting Notes to Get You Started
		What’s the Uncommon Sense to Try to Get From this Chapter?
		What Can You Use this For?
		What Insight Can You Gain About the University By Thinking With Ethics?
	Some Insights Into Institutional Practice
	Research That Has Merit
	Research Conducted With Integrity
	Beneficence and Risk
		Would Her Research Present Immediate Risks for Participants?
		How Would That Kind of Risk Be Managed Relative to the Potential Benefit?
	Justice
	Respect
	Before You Read Chapter 7
	References
7 Food for Thought and Social Animals: (Aka a Disobedient History of Anthropological Theory)
	Some Orienting Notes to Get You Started
		What’s the Uncommon Sense to Try to Get From this Chapter?
		What Can You Use this For?
		What Insight Can You Get Into the University By Thinking With Food and Animals?
	Food (In)security
	A Diversion Into Smelly Oranges and Moist Tongues
	A Bit More of a Diversion Into Distinction
	The Taste of Food Insecurity
	Food Distribution: Eating With the Plumber
	Animals and a Potted History of Anthropological Thought: the Super-Short and Snappy Version
	Animals and a Potted History of Anthropological Thinking: the Much Longer and Meandering Version
	Before You Read Chapter 8
	Notes
	References
8 Space, Consumption and the Anthropology of Things
	Some Orienting Notes to Get You Started
		What’s the Uncommon Sense to Try to Get From this Chapter?
		What Can You Use this For?
		What Insight Can You Get Into the University By Thinking With Space and Things?
	Bah Humbug!
	Sacrificial Shopping for Love?
	Back to Bah Humbug
	Varieties of Reciprocity
		Generalised Reciprocity
		Balanced Reciprocity
		Negative Reciprocity
	Is a Gift Ever Just a Gift?
	Things, Things, Things!
	Before You Read Chapter 9
	Note
	References
9 Power, Institutions and the University: A Motivating Conclusion
	Some Orienting Notes to Get You Started
		What’s the Uncommon Sense to Get From this Chapter?
		What Can You Use this For?
		What Insight Can You Get Into the University By Thinking About Power?
	Some Key Thinkers
	Notes
	References
Index