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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: Dr Tim O'Meara.
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 gained an understanding of the economic and political organisation of people in traditional tribal and peasant societies and those societies that are moving toward Western modernisation and development;
- have examined the interrelationships of subsistence economies, politics and acculturation in non-Western and localised societies; and
- have an acquaintance with anthropological techniques of analysing economic and political behaviour in non-Western societies.
Content:
The ethnology of economic and political systems with an emphasis on non-Western and localised societies.
Assessment:
Written work or equivalent totalling 5,000 words.
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Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Arts (Volume 3 page 14)
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