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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Arts : Anthropology

136-292/392 Economics of Tribal, Peasant and Developing Societies

Credit Points:

16.7 2nd and 3rd year

Coordinator:

Dr Tim O'Meara

Prerequisite/s:

One first year Anthropology subject or one first year Economics or Economic History subject. (12.5 points).

Timetable:

Semester 2

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 5000 words.
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