Essay Title:
‘Consumption helps us make a place in the world for ourselves, and helps us make sense of our place in the world’ (Mary Douglas). Assess in relation to at least two ethnographic examples.
2,400 words
(Anthropology)
Let me know if you have any questions or clarifications 🙂
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Materials:
It is required to use/reference 1 or 2 of the articles from the module in the essay:
● Carrier, J.G. (2010) ‘Protecting the Environment the Natural Way: Ethical Consumption and Commodity Fetishism’, Antipode., 42(3), pp. 672–689.
● Baviskar, A. (2018), Between violence and desire: space, power, and identity in the making of metropolitan Delhi. International Social Science Journal, 68: 199-208.
● Mackendrick, N. (2014) ‘More Work for Mother’, Gender & society : official publication of Sociologists for Women in Society., 28(5), pp. 705–728.
● West, P. (2014). “Such a Site for Play, This Edge”: Surfing, Tourism, and Modernist Fantasy in Papua New Guinea. The Contemporary Pacific, 26(2), 411–432.
Other related articles/books that may be useful (don’t need to use):
● Graeber, D. (2011) “Consumption”. Current Anthropology. 52 (4), 489–511.
● Hill, J. A. (2011) ‘Endangered childhoods: how consumerism is impacting child and youth identity’, Media, Culture & Society, 33(3), pp. 347–362.
● Douglas, M. & Isherwood, B.C. (1996) The world of goods: towards an anthropology of consumption: with a new introduction. Rev. ed. London ; New York, Routledge.
❖ Mary Douglas book (as seen in the title)
