Anthropological Essay writing代写
Write an essay on one of the following topics:
Word limit: 1500 words MAXIMUM (there’s a penalty for exceeding the word limit,
so don’t go over 1500 words! There’s no penalty for going under the word limit.)
Date Due: January 9th
, 2017.
THE BELOW READINGS ARE JUST SUGGESTIONS FOR WHERE TO
START WITH YOUR ESSAY RESEARCH – HOWEVER, INDEPENDENT
RESEARCH IS EXPECTED. You should include at LEAST 2 independently
sourced readings in your essay references, in addition to the required unit
readings and the suggested references below.
1. Zinberg (1984: 6) proposes that “Social controls apply to the use of all
drugs”. Discuss social controls surrounding drug use, as well as consider the
extent to which they function to minimise harm amongst drug users in Western
and non-Western societies.
Agar, M.H. (1977) ‘Into that Whole Ritual Thing: Ritualist Drug Use Among Urban
American Heroin Addicts’. In B.M. Du Toit (ed) Drugs, Rituals and Altered States of
Consciousness. Rotterdam: Balkema, pp. 137-148.
Dobkin de Rios, M. (1972) ‘Ayahuasca Healing Sessions’. In Visionary Vine:
Hallucinogenic Healing in the Peruvian Amazon. Prospect Heights: Waveland Press,
pp. 99-116.
Grund, J-P, C.D. Kaplan & M DeVries (1993) ‘Rituals of Regulation: Controlled and
Uncontolled Drug Use in Natural Settings’. In N Heather et al (eds), Psychoactive
Drugs and Harm Reduction: From Faith to Science, London: Whurr Publishers, pp.
77-90.
Moore, D. (1993) ‘Beyond Zinberg’s ‘Social Setting’: a Processual View of Illicit
Drug Use’, Drug and Alcohol Review, 12: 413-421.
Moore, D. (1993) ‘Social Controls, Harm Minimisation and Interactive Outreach: the
Public Health Implications of an ethnography of Drug Use’, Australian Journal of
Public Health, 17(1): 58-67.
Harding, W.M. & N.E. Zinberg (1977) ‘The Effectiveness of the Sub-culture in
Developing Rituals and Social Sanctions for Controlled Drug Use’. In B.M. Du Toit
(ed) Drugs, Rituals and Altered States of Consciousness. Rotterdam: Balkema, pp.
111-133.
Sansom, B. (1980) ‘A Style For Grogging’. In The Camp at Wallaby
Cross. Canberra: Australian Institute for Aboriginal Studies.
Weil, A. (1973) ‘Clues from the Amazon’. In The Nature of Mind, Jonathon Cape:
London, pp. 98-115. Zinberg, N.E. (1984) ‘Historical Perspectives on Controlled Drug Use’. In Drug, Set
and Setting: the Basis for Controlled Intoxicant Use. Yale University Press, pp. 1-18.
2. With considered reference to scholarly literature on the subject, assess the
advantages and disadvantages of Cannabis Legalisation in Australia.
Dennis, M.L. & W White (1999) ‘The Marijuana Legalization Debate: is There a
Middle Ground’. In JA Inciardi (ed), The Drug Legalization Debate. Sage
Publications.
Ferguson, D.M.. & L.J. Horwood (2000) ‘Does Cannabis Use Encourage Other Forms
of Illicit Drug Use?’, Addiction, 95(4): 505-520.
Gerber, R.J. (2004) ‘History of Demonizing Drugs’. In Legalizing Marijuana: Drug
Policy Reform and Prohibition Politics, Westport, CT: Praeger, pp. 1-16.
Hall, W. (1997) ‘The Recent Australian Debate About the Prohibition on Cannabis
Use’, Addiction, 92(9): 1109-1115.
Hall, W. (1998) ‘Cannabis Use and Psychosis’, Drug and Alcohol Review, 17: 433-
444.
Hall, W. & R.L. Pacula (2003) ‘Policy Alternatives’. In Cannabis Use and
Dependence: Public Health and Public Policy, Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, pp. 183-226.
Himmelstein, J.L. (1983) ‘From Killer Weed to Drop Out Drug’, Contemporary
Crises, 7(1): 13-38.
Sarre, R. (1990) ‘A Review of the Cannabis Expiation Notice Scheme in South
Australia: Research Note’, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 299-
303.
MacCoun R.J. and P. Reuter Drug War 'Heresies: Learning from Other Vices, Times,
& Places', Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
McGeorge, J. & C.K. Aitken (1997) ‘Effects of Cannabis Decriminalization in the
Australian Capital Territory on University Students’ Patterns of Use, Journal of Drug
Issues, 27(4): 785-794.
3. How have illicit drugs become symbolic scapegoats in wider social
conflicts? Discuss with reference to at least two countries.
Aurin, M. (2000) ‘Chasing the Dragon: the Cultural Metamorphosis of Opium in the
United States, 1825-1935, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 14(3): 414-441.
Brady, M. (1990) ‘Indigenous and government attempts to control
alcohol’. Contemporary Drug Problems vol. 17(2). Burr, A. (1984) ‘The Ideologies of Despair: a Symbolic Interpretation of Punks and
Skinheads’ Usage of Barbiturates, Social Science & Medicine, 19(9): 929-938.
Dikkotter, F., L. Laamann & Z. Xun (2002) ‘Narcotic Culture: A Social History of
Drug Consumption in China’, British Journal of Criminology, 42(2): 317-336.
Hoffman, J. (1990) ‘The Historical Shift in the Perception of Opiates: From Medicine
to Social Menace.’ Journal of Psychoactive Drugs 22:53-62.
Himmelstein, J.L. (1983) ‘From Killer Weed to Drop Out Drug’, Contemporary
Crises, 7(1): 13-38.
Manderson, D. (1995) ‘Metamorphoses: Clashing Symbols in the Social Construction
of Drugs’, The Journal of Drug Issues, 25(4): 799-816.
Manderson, D (2005). ‘Possessed: drug policy, witchcraft and belief.’ Cultural
Studies, 19(1):35-62.
Montagne, M. (1988) The Metaphorical Nature of Drugs and Drug Taking, Social
Science & Medicine, 26(4): 417-424.
Weimer, D. (2003) Drugs-as-a-Disease: Heroin, Metaphors, and Identity in Nixon’s
Drug War, Janus Head, 6(2): 260-281.
4. The United Nations has been aiming to reduce illicit crop cultivation by
introducing other crop varieties as a substitute, as well as by offering alternative
forms of development. Discuss the impact of both of these programs on illicit
crop production and assess their viability.
Cohen, P.T. (2006) ‘Help as a threat: Alternative development and the ‘war on drugs’
in Bolivia and Laos’ Development Bulletin (Development Studies Network, ANU)
No.69, Feb.
Farrell, G. (1998) ‘A global empirical view of drug crop eradication and United
Nations crop substitution and alternative development strategies’ Journal of Drug
Issues 28(2): 395-436.
Hellin, J. (2000) ‘Coca eradication in the Andes: Lessons from Bolivia’ m Capitalism,
Nature, Socialism 12 (June):139-158.
Leons, M.B. and H.Sanabria eds (1997) Coca, Cocaine and the Bolivian Reality,
State University of New York Press (several papers in this volume are relevant, in
particular those by Leons and Sanabria).
Renard, R.D. (2001) Opium Reduction in Thailand 1970-2000, UNDCP, Silkworm
Books, Chiang Mai.
Thoumi, F.E. (2002) ‘The profitability of illicit crops and alternative development’.
Paper prepared for the International Conference on Alternative Development in Drug
Control and Cooperation, Feldafing, Jan.8-12. UNODC (2001) Alternative Development in the Andean Area –The UNDCP
Experience (www.unodc.org80/pdf/publications/alt-devlopment andean.pdf)
ESSAY WRITING GUIDE
MAKE SURE YOU….
Look carefully at the information provided:
- on the Anthropology Departmental Website:
on Anthropological Essay writing
http://www.mq.edu.au/about_us/faculties_and_departments/faculty_of_arts/depart
ment_of_anthropology/undergraduate_study_in_anthropology/writing_an_anthrop
ology_essay/
and Academic Honesty Policy
http://www.mq.edu.au/policy/docs/academic_honesty/policy.htm
WORD LIMIT:
Remember that there is a 1500 word limit. Marks will be deducted for exceeding the
word limit (1 percentage point for each 10 words that you exceed the word limit).
Some basic guidelines on essay writing
Thesis and Relevance of Arguments
The essay should demonstrate your capacity to develop a structured argument in
response to the question. Your material must be relevant to the question and draw on
the themes and issues of the unit. Make sure that you identify exactly what the
question is asking. Make a clear argument (the “thesis” of your essay) and support it
with appropriate evidence.
Make sure you demonstrate that you understand the central concept used (e.g.
‘culture’ and ‘ethnography’.) You can do this either by giving definitions (do this only
with very difficult or very important technical words) or, preferably, by using the
concepts in such a way that demonstrates that you know what they mean.
Furthermore, you need to focus on the relation between abstractions/theories and the
raw data (empirical examples) you use to explore these theories, in order to achieve a
balanced discussion.
Organisation and Expression
The essay should be clearly organised so that it develops an argument. You should
have an introductory paragraph that states the aim of the essay and outlines the structure of the argument. The points made in one paragraph should follow on from
the previous paragraph and lead into the next one. You should have a conclusion that
summarises your main points.
Clear expression is an important part of a clear argument. Attention to grammar,
syntax and style will assist in clarifying what you are trying to say to the reader. Try
reading aloud or ask someone to read it for you, and ask a friend to tell you whether
the arguments make sense and follow a logical flow.
You should leave a 4cm left margin and use a 12 point font with double spacing.
Number the pages. Essays must be typed
Research and Referencing
Make use of appropriate sources from the required and recommended readings in the
unit outline and in the essay handout. Search the Library or the Internet for additional
references. Lectures, tutorials and general anthropology texts should also guide you
to relevant issues and readings. Make sure that the points you make are relevant and
illustrate the argument of your essay.
Do not uncritically rely on un-scholarly sources such as Wikipedia and non-peer
reviewed popular literature or websites. You can mention these to make a critical
point (e.g. “This popular website makes such-and-such a claim about drugs,”) but do
not assume that they represent the final word on a topic.
Do not just summarize the arguments of different authors – show links between them,
agreements and disagreements, and offer a critical assessment of the authors’
arguments and the data they marshal in support of those arguments.
Back up all statements of fact, quotations, and paraphrased sentences with appropriate
citations.
Use the referencing system as described in the essay writing guide on the
Anthropology Department website. If you plagiarise, you will fail the whole
assignment, so make sure you reference both direct quotes and when you use other
people’s ideas. You must also have a bibliography / reference list).
Communication / Writing
Spelling, punctuation, and grammar are extremely important: you should use a
dictionary (and your spell checker) regularly. Have a friend proof-read it for you
before submitting – another person can often spot typos that you might miss.
Anthropological Essay writing代写
