Oral blanc de préparation à l'épreuve de SES au bac européen
Classe de première ES

Preparation : 20 minutes
Oral exam : 10 minutes, 6-7 minutes to answer the question, and 3-4 minutes for discussion.

Using the document and your knowledge, make a structured answer to the following question, you must use examples studied in class.

Subject

What are the common points and differences between anthropology and sociology

After taking a degree in modern languages at Cambridge, Nigel Barley trained in anthropology at Oxford and gained a doctorate in the anthropology of the Anglo-Saxons. After a period of teaching at University College London, he was appointed Visitor to the Slade School of Fine Art. In 1978 he embarked on two years' fieldwork in the Cameroon before joining the British Museum in 1981.
This was his first experience of anthropological fieldwork - and very nearly his last. But he survived to write this witty and informative account of his attempts to understand and record the Dowayo society in which he lived. On its publication the Daily Telegraph wrote of Nigel Barley: 'He does for anthropology what Gerald Durrell did for animal-collecting'.A Plague of Caterpillars (Penguin, 1987) records Nigel Barley's second trip to the Dowayo people, which he embarked on in order to observe their circumcision ceremony, a major tribal event that takes place only every six or seven years, and Not a Hazardous Sport (Penguin, 1989) is an account of his travels in Indonesia and his meeting with the Torajan people. In Native Land (Penguin, 1990), which was based on the Channel 4 series, Nigel Barley turns his quizzical eye on the rituals and traditions of English life. He has also written a novel, and a of Stamford Raffles, The Duke of Puddle Dock. His most recent book, Dancing on the Gravbiographye: Anthropological Encounters with Death, was published in 1995.

Nigel Barley set up home in a mud but in order to study the customs and beliefs of the Dowayo people. He knew how fieldwork should be conducted, but, as he rapidly discovered, the theory did not take into account the elusive nature of the Dowayo society, which refused to conform to the rules.

In this honest, funny and compulsive account of his first year in Africa, Dr Barley - who survived boredom, disaster, illness and hostility - gives a wonderfully irreverent introduction to the life of a social anthropologist which nevertheless makes inspiring reading.

The innocent Anthropologist Nigel Barley, Penguin Travel Library, 1983