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Essay Writing Guide Department of Social Anthropology University Of Cambridge. Human, Social & Political Science Tripos. Preparing, writing and presenting supervision essays. These guidelines are intended merely to help and encourage you in your written work.
These essays examine one or more theoretical issues in anthropology and suggest new directions for future research. For instance, Sherry Ortner’s (1974) essay “Is female to male as nature is to culture?” argued that the universality of female subordination across all known hu-
The underlying message throughout the essays conveys a consistent approach of an individual embodied human existence with capability and power to make an everyday life, and by interaction with other individuals to create, re-create, make sense of and animate sociocultural forms.
Despite the conceptual and physical distance amongst its sites of study, the coherence of social anthropology stems from its distinctive intellectual frameworks, methods, and lively internal debates conducted around shared passions and inquiries.
Your essay should have a clear and logical 'picture'—by this we mean that the main ideas and structure should be clear enough to be represented in a 'mind map', 'knowledge tree', or any one of several popular techniques.
First I will look at the traits that Homo sapiens has evolved in order to be able to adapt to diverse environments. I will then look at how humans can adapt to temperature, solar radiation and altitude, both in terms of temporary responses and acclimatisation, looking at biological and behavioural adaptations.
When writing in/for sociocultural, or cultural, anthropology, you will be asked to do a few things in each assignment: Critically question cultural norms (in both your own. culture and other cultures). Analyze ethnographic data (e.g., descriptions of. everyday activities and events, interviews, oral.
