136-281/381 Culture Change and Protest Movements

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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.

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Problems of culture change and responses to the influence of Western societies on the non-Western world, including cultural protest.

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