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 136-172 Varieties of Human Experience

Availability

Not offered in 1998.

Credit Points

12.5 1st year

Coordinator

Dr Roger Just

Contact

Two hours of lectures and a 1-hour tutorial a week. Regular attendance and contribution to discussion in tutorials is expected

Subject Description

This subject explores aspects of human behaviour relating to human cognition and the symbolic worlds humans create and inhabit. The subject considers language, forms of symbolic classification, kinship, religion, myth, rationality and relativism, non-western medical systems and problems of anthropological method and ethnographic description.

Assessment

Written work of up to 3000 words for the semester and a 2-hour examination.

Prescribed Texts

A collection of readings will be available from the Department.

  • Evans-Pritchard, E.E, Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande. (Abridged edition) 1976, Clarendon Press, Oxford.
  • Bobby, Janice, Wombs and Alien Spirits: Women, Men and the Zar Cult in Northern Sudan. 1989, University of Winconsin Press.
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