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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Arts : Anthropology

136-277/377 Power, Ideology and Inequality

Credit Points:

16.7 2nd and 3rd year

Timetable:

Semester 2

Contact:

Two hours of lectures and a 1-hour tutorial a week

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 categorised 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 5000 words.
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