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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Arts : Indonesian
150-436 Peoples and Languages of the Austronesian World |
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Credit Points: | 16.7 4th year | |
Coordinator: | Dr K A Adelaar and Dr D Lewis | |
Prerequisite/s: | Admission to combined honours in Indonesian or fourth-year honours in anthropology. | |
Timetable: | Semester 2 | |
Contact: | One 2-hour seminar per week | |
Subject Description: | This subject includes a survey of the anthropological and linguistic diversity of Southeast Asia and Oceania; notes on Southeast Asian 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 Advanced students of Indonesian, anthropology and linguistics will acquire a practical knowledge of problems and possibilities in combining linguistic and anthropological theories and methods. They will be acquainted with the complementarity of anthropological and linguistic methods and theory. | |
Assessment: | Two written assignments totalling no more than 6000 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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