The General Board give notice that, on the recommendation of the Faculty Board or other authority concerned, the regulations for certain University examinations have been amended as follows:
(Statutes and Ordinances, p. 227)
The titles and content of Papers S4 (Advanced social anthropology I) and S5 (Advanced social anthropology II) have been amended. The new titles of these papers are:
| S4. | Thought, belief, and ethics |
| S5. | Political economy and social transformations |
(Statutes and Ordinances, p. 232)
Papers S4 and S5.
By replacing the entries for these papers so as to read:
The courses for this paper will normally cover anthropological perspectives on mind, thought, and belief. Particular concerns may be expected to include the anthropology of cognition, knowledge, and belief systems, and the anthropological study of ethics and moral economy.
The courses for this paper will normally cover anthropological perspectives on political economy and processes of social transformation. Particular concerns may be expected to include anthropological contributions to the study of value, property, and domination, and the growth and legacy of modern social forms including capitalism and socialism.
Papers S6 and S7-11.
By replacing in the last line the words 'West Africa, East Africa' by the words 'Southern Africa'.
By amending the first sentence so as to read 'Up to five papers will be available each year.' and by adding to the list of subjects the following:
Legal frameworks have re-emerged, in the contemporary period, as ways to justify social and political action. The language of 'the law' pervades a multiplicity of arenas, both local and global, implicating experience, personhood, and subjectivity. The aim of this paper is to show the way the law is used as a vehicle to structure relations, whether between states, between colonized and colonizer, or between special interest groups (as in the case of new technologies). Legal systems acquire a social and cultural character of their own, appearing to be departments of modern life and thus potential ethnographic objects. If such systems represent themselves as normative and rational, from an anthropological view they are contextualized by other phenomena. The course explores what it means to study legal systems, and in doing so opens up questions about organizing concepts (such as 'rights') of major contemporary importance.
The Faculty Board give notice that the variable subjects for 2005-06 will be:
| Paper S6A. | South Asia |
| Paper S6B. | Southern Africa |
| Paper S6C. | The Pacific |
| Paper S7. | Anthropology of colonialism and empire |
| Paper S8. | Anthropology and law |
| Paper S9. | Medical anthropology |