Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Arts (Volume 3 page 14)
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Availability: Not offered in 1996; expected to be offered in 1997 or 1998.
Credit points: 16.7 2nd and 3rd years
Coordinator: To be advised.
Prerequisite: Normally one first year Anthropology subject (12.5 points).
Contact: Two hours of lectures and a 1-hour tutorial a week.
Objectives:
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.
Content:
Problems of culture change and responses to the influence of Western societies on the non-Western world, including cultural protest.
Assessment:
Written work or equivalent totalling 5,000 words.
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