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150-436 Peoples and Languages of the Austronesian World

Availability: Not offered in 1996.

Credit points: 16.7 4th year

Coordinator: Dr K A Adelaar and Dr D Lewis.

Prerequisite: Admission to combined honours in Indonesian or fourth-year honours in anthropology.

Contact: One 2-hour seminar per week

Timetable: Not available in 1996; available in Second semester 1997

Objectives:

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.

Content:

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.

Assessment:

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.

Prescribed texts:

• Source material will vary from year to year but in all cases will include reports of recent Australian research on Austronesia

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Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Arts (Volume 3 page 116)

Status:          Official 1996
Date created:    Oct  9 1995
Last modified:   Oct  9 1995
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