Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Arts (Volume 3 page 14)
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1. Anthropology, Faculty of Arts (v3, p14) : Next:136-281 | Prev:136-272
2. Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts (v3, p23) : Next:136-281 | Prev:136-272
Availability: Not offered in 1996.
Credit points: 16.7 2nd and 3rd years
Coordinator: Dr Mary Patterson.
Prerequisite: Normally one first-year Anthropology subject (12.5 points).
Contact: Two hours of lectures and a 1-hour tutorial a week.
Timetable: Second semester
Objectives:
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.
Content:
The comparative ethnology of the distribution and organisation of power and status in societies of the Asia-Pacific region.
Assessment:
Written work or equivalent totalling 5,000 words.
1. Anthropology, Faculty of Arts (v3, p14) : Next:136-281 | Prev:136-272
2. Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts (v3, p23) : Next:136-281 | Prev:136-272
3. Sociology, Faculty of Arts (v3, p167) : Next:191-202 | Prev:136-272
Availability: Not offered in 1996.
Credit points: 16.7 2nd and 3rd years
Coordinator: Dr Mary Patterson.
Prerequisite: Normally, 25 points of first-year Sociology.
Contact: Two hours of lectures and a 1-hour tutorial a week.
Timetable: First semester
Objectives:
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.
Content:
The comparative ethnology of cosmologies, social ideologies and social practices in hierarchically ordered societies.
Assessment:
Written work or equivalent totalling 5,000 words.
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3. Sociology, Faculty of Arts (v3, p167) : Next:191-202 | Prev:136-272
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