PEOPLES AND LANGUAGES OF THE AUSTRONESIAN WORLD Not offered in 1996. 16.7 4th year Dr K A Adelaar and Dr D Lewis. Not available in 1996; available in Second semester 1997 One 2-hour seminar per week Admission to combined honours in Indonesian or fourth-year honours in anthropology. Survey of the anthropological and linguistic diversity of Southeast Asia and Oceania; notes on Southeast Asia prehistory, ecology and geography;

linguistic classifications and typologies; linguistic change; semantic change.

Mythic histories and hierarchy in social organisation, metaphor, ritual language and cultural classifications. Methodology in Austronesian comparative linguistics and ethnology.

On completion of the subject, advanced students of Indonesian, anthropology and linguistics should:
  • be equipped with a practical knowledge of problems and possibilities in combining linguistic and anthropological theories and methods;
  • be acquainted with the complementarity of anthropological and linguistic methods and theory.
Two written assignments totalling no more than 6,000 words: (1) a paper on comparative methods in linguistics and ethnology and (2) a paper on a specific research problem in either Austronesian linguistics or Austronesian anthropology. Source material will vary from year to year but in all cases will include reports of recent Australian research on Austronesia