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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Arts : Political Science

166-123 'The World Is an Amazing Place': the Politics of Other Cultures

Availability:

Not offered in 1997.

Credit Points:

12.5 1st year

Coordinator:

Michael Dutton and Phillip Darby

Contact:

Two 1-hour lectures and a tutorial a week.

Content:

This subject addresses the problems posed in the attempt to understand cultures other than ones own; principally cultures within the non-west. The role played in historical and contemporary approaches to the study of other cultures by such categories as race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, progress and development, and notions of universal human rights. Specific reference will be made to literary texts, history and film.

Assessment:

Written work totalling 4000 words.

Prescribed Texts:

  • E Said, Orientalism
  • E Said, Culture and Imperialism
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