Not offered in 1996. 16.7 2nd and 3rd years Dr Mary Patterson. Normally one first-year Anthropology subject (12.5 points). Second semester Two hours of lectures and a 1-hour tutorial a week. Students completing this subject should:

• have a thorough understanding of the way in which anthropologists have approached political organisation in non-western societies;
• have acquired a knowledge of the ethnographic literature on the dynamics of political organisation in societies categorized in the literature as 'egalitarian' and 'hierarchical' in Australia, S. E. Asia and the Pacific; and
• have critically examined anthropological theories about the distribution of power in societies in relation to issues of colonialism and gender.

The comparative ethnology of the distribution and organisation of power and status in societies of the Asia-Pacific region. Written work or equivalent totalling 5,000 words. Not offered in 1996. 16.7 2nd and 3rd years Dr Mary Patterson. Normally, 25 points of first-year Sociology. First semester Two hours of lectures and a 1-hour tutorial a week. Students completing this subject should:

• have a thorough knowledge of the anthropological study of relationships of cosmological beliefs, ideology and forms of social practice;
• have acquired a knowledge of the ethnographic literature on hierarchically ordered societies of the Indian Ocean, southeast Asia, Melanesia and the Pacific; and
• have critically examined anthropological theories of hierarchy, social stratification and the organisation of power in non-Western societies.

The comparative ethnology of cosmologies, social ideologies and social practices in hierarchically ordered societies. Written work or equivalent totalling 5,000 words.