Teaching with the CEA
The Cambridge Online Encyclopedia of Anthropology is a growing open-access teaching and learning resource that can be used for preparing the International Baccalaureate (IB). It brings together comprehensive overviews of anthropological thought organised by topics. These topics provide opportunities to draw concepts and areas of inquiry into conversation with one another, as is encouraged by the IB syllabus guide. Each entry covers a topic and can help teachers in selecting further readings, or in identifying broader anthropological debates.
The following table helps teachers locate encyclopaedia entries that are most relevant to their needs. It lists CEA entries based on their relevance to the IB syllabus ‘groups' and 'areas of inquiry’. It also lists ‘key concepts’ that teachers might want to cover. The fourth column lists the subheadings used within the encyclopaedia entry, to provide teachers with a sense of the content that each entry covers. The table was put together in October of 2020 and will be updated annually.
| Areas of Inquiry | Encyclopaedia Entry | Key Concepts | Entry Subheadings |
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| Group 1 | |||
| Classifying the World | Animals |
Symbolism Belief and Knowledge Social Relations Power |
Good to eat, good to think Good to live with Taking animism seriously From trust to domination? Taking animals (and scientists) seriously Conclusion: multispecies multiethnography |
| Islam |
Belief and Knowledge Power Change |
Is there an anthropology of Islam? Where is Islam? Everyday ethics and exceptional politics Humans and God Women and men Reform and critique |
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| Science |
Belief and Knowledge Culture Materiality |
A science of non-science? From Science to sciences Studying scientists in their labs: two examples Three key lessons |
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| Health and Illness | Autism |
Change Social Relations Belief and Knowledge |
Disciplinary landscapes The emergence of autism Autism's ontological status Self-advocacy and the neurodiversity movement Identity, community, and subjectivity Language and sociality Body and senses Autism around the world |
| Global Health |
Belief and Knowledge Culture Change |
Introduction: an awkward relation Emergent transformations in global health Anthropological engagements with global health |
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| Disability |
Power Social Relations Society |
Introduction: disability and difference, disability and impairment From a medical to a social model Stigma, liminality, and reconciling the exceptional with the ordinary Beyond the Euro-American west Recent developments |
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| The Body | Death |
Social Relations Change Belief and Knowledge |
Hertz: death as transformation The transformation of death Death and contemporary biomedicine New immortalities Thanato-politics Afterword/afterlife |
| Queer Anthropology |
Identity Culture Change Power |
History Queer anthropology From homosexual to Tom: language, categories, meanings The transgender turn Queer, American style Is gay global? |
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| Sport |
Materiality Identity Change Culture |
Sport in anthropology The emergence of modern sport Sport under capitalism and socialism The neoliberal restructuring of sport Sport, gender, and sex Sport as cultural performance Body enhancement and its limits Conclusion: sport and scale |
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| Group 2 | |||
| Belonging | Citizenship |
Identity Power Change Social Relations Society |
The political community Anthropological approaches: (i) citizenship as subject formation Anthropological approaches: (ii) where are our political communities? Anthropological approaches: (iii) membership and exclusion Taking a fresh look at citizenship Further reading |
| House and Home |
Materiality Symbolism Social Relations Society |
The house: from symbolism to social reproduction Assembling home: materialist approaches Re-making home: feminist and critical approaches Home as a process and ideal |
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| Childhood |
Social Relations Power Change Belief and Knowledge |
Introduction: children and ‘childhood’ Socialization: becoming a cultural person Knowledge and learning Formal schooling and new models of childhood Problematising child rights The politics of childhood |
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| Ethics / Morality |
Society Social Relations Change Identity |
Partial engagements: Durkheimian, Boasian, and Marxist New departures: The anthropology of ethics Intellectual traditions Emerging debates |
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| Communication, Expression and Technology | Digital Anthropology |
Change Materiality Social Relations |
What is ‘the digital’? Some newish worlds Everyday digital life How we do anthropology digitally Changing humanity |
| Voice |
Materiality Power Identity |
Voice in Euro-American modernity The sonic and material voice Voice and the making of socio-political identity The voice as excess Sound technologies and the mediated voice Public voices and intimate publics Conclusion: The wider relevance of voice |
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| Movement, Time and Space | Anthropocene |
Change Materiality Power |
What is the Anthropocene? The Anthropocene as context Studying ‘the Anthropocene’ as a concept Remaking the Anthropocene: speculation, creativity, and experimentation Re-politicising the Anthropocene |
| Landscape |
Materiality Symbolism |
Landscape in the social sciences Anthropological beginnings: ‘space’ Rethinking ‘landscape’ The anthropology of landscape ‘Landscape’ in a changing world |
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| Tourism |
Social Relations Power Change |
Introduction: contexts and contradictions Tourism as ritual: directly experiencing a macrocosm Staging, commodification, and spectatorship Host-guest interdependence and the creation of new social systems Conclusion: the psychological complexity of images of others |
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| Group 3 | |||
| Conflict | Resistance |
Change Power Society Identity |
Order and rebellion: resistance in the shadows From order to conflict: Marxist and post-colonial anthropology Culture, identity and symbolism: everyday resistance Too much resistance: power and subjectivity Imagining different futures: contemporary anthropological approaches to resistance |
| Revolution |
Change Power |
Defining revolution A field takes shape Placing revolutions in wider social contexts Paradoxes and contradictions within revolutions Legacies of revolution Anthropologies of revolutions |
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| Precarity |
Change Power Society Materiality |
Precarity The ontological condition of precariousness Precarity as part of neoliberal capitalism The ‘Precariat’ and class formation Conclusion: the politics of labour |
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| Development | Charity |
Change Power Identity Knowledge and Belief Materiality |
Theoretical foundations Reciprocity versus mutuality Research on charity pre-2000 Decentring of charity via Islam The critique of humanitarianism A holistic template Conclusion: progress in charity? |
| Human Rights |
Identity Power Change Society |
Anti anti-relativism Enter the activists Intimate human rights |
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| Mining |
Change Power Materiality Social Relations |
The lives of miners Mine-affected communities and mining encounters Buying and selling minerals The ethics of studying mining Conclusion: future directions |
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| Production, Exchange, Consumption | Feasting |
Materiality Society Power Change |
The cultural nature of feasting Function versus foundation Eating and not eating Risky, anti-social feasts Morality and politics under negotiation Production before the feast Invisible guests with power over life and death |
| Money |
Materiality Power Change Symbolism |
What counts as money? Money at the threshold of persons and relations Monetary pluralism Networks, platforms and open questions |
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| Waste |
Materiality Change Society Symbolism |
Symbolic-structuralist approaches Economic-materialist approaches Intersubjective and post-human |
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| Water |
Materiality Identity Symbolism Power |
Religion, health and wealth Power and control Infrastructure and conflict Owning water Water in the Anthropocene |
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