The essay question involves a concept drawn from a course reading. Do
not base your response solely on that reading. Instead, take the concept as
a general observation of a broad trend and illustrate that trend using
contextualised examples. Don’t be afraid to critically engage the concept
if you do not entirely agree with it.
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Do not summarise the readings;
instead, find themes and examples in them that help you build your argument
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Illustrate your argument using
one or two ethnographic case studies for most of the detail, and any other case
studies for the minor supporting details
Topic: Employ case studies and concepts from the readings to
discuss how poor people deal with the disruptive effects of contemporary
capitalism through what James Ferguson (2015: 94) calls ‘survivalist
improvisation’.
Sources
1.
Turner T. The Kayapo resistance. In: Spradley J
and M, ed. Conformity and Conflict: Readings in Cultural Anthropology. 9th ed.
; 365-382.
2.
Monica M. White (2017) “A pig and a garden”: Fannie Lou Hamer and the Freedom Farms
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3.
Prentice, R. (2015). “Is We Own Factory”:
Thiefing a Chance on the Shop Floor. In Thiefing a Chance: Factory Work,
Illicit Labor, and Neoliberal Subjectivities in Trinidad (pp. 87–110).
University Press of Colorado. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt155jp7p.9
4.
Robbie Peters (2012) CITY OF GHOSTS, Critical Asian Studies, 44:4, 543-570, DOI: 10.1080/14672715.2012.738541
5. Githinji, V. (2009), FOOD INSECURITY IN BUHAYA:
THE CYCLE OF WOMEN’S MARGINALIZATION AND THE SPREAD OF POVERTY, HUNGER, AND
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Thompson, E. P. (1967). Time, Work-Discipline,
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http://www.jstor.org/stable/649749