The essay should have:
a) focus and clarity of the language used represent your claim;
b) the degree to which your discussion utilizes assigned text materials to illustrate and develup a response to each question
-(When referring to the texts), give page numbers in parentheses- no need to quote extensively. -NEVER assume that the illustrative passage you have chosen speaks “for itself.” Rather, having cited your text as grounds for your discussion, explain the connection to the claim(s) by explaining the usefulness of the text-specific example(s).
-(When referring to the texts), give page numbers in parentheses- no need to quote extensively. -NEVER assume that the illustrative passage you have chosen speaks “for itself.” Rather, having cited your text as grounds for your discussion, explain the connection to the claim(s) by explaining the usefulness of the text-specific example(s).
c ) the extent to which your discussion is convincing as a point of view.
Essay: There are four “universal compensations” that societies provide their members, provided on the basis of what those members do (their roles) or see themselves as being (their
identities):
-power (the capacity to make things happen in one’s own or others’ interest);
-property (tangible elements of value within a culture):
-prestige (status, either marked by title or by reputation); and,
-pleasure (aspects of well-being, either physical or metaphysical).
Using one of the ethnographies read since the mid-term, demonstrate how at least TWO of these compensations operate in one society. Provide careful consideration and specific empirical evidence of ethnographic detail, from your chosen text, in
order to be convincing as to the importance of the TWO compensations you have chosen.
order to be convincing as to the importance of the TWO compensations you have chosen.
Compensation use: Prestige and Power. from the book: Gilbert Herdt. TheSambia: Ritual, Sexuality and Change ni Papa New Guinea.