Not offered in 1996; expected to be offered in 1997 or 1998. 16.7 2nd and 3rd years To be advised. Normally one first year Anthropology subject (12.5 points). Two hours of lectures and a 1-hour tutorial a week. Students completing this subject should:

• have a knowledge of the range and variety of ways in which non-Western societies have evolved and acculturated under the influence of western missionisation, colonialisation and imperial control;
• have mastered the principal anthropological approaches to the study of acculturation and theories of social change;
• have engaged in a critical assessment of the impact of western cultures on the non-Western world; and
• have acquired a knowledge of the ethnographic and ethnological literature on Africa, south and South-East Asia, Melanesia and South America.

Problems of culture change and responses to the influence of Western societies on the non-Western world, including cultural protest. Written work or equivalent totalling 5,000 words.