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136-277 Power, Ideology and Inequality | |
Note | Available as 136-377 at 3rd-year level. |
Availability | Not offered in 1998. |
Credit Points | 16.7 2nd and 3rd year |
Contact | Two hours of lectures and a 1-hour tutorial a week |
Subject Description | The comparative ethnology of the distribution and organisation of power and status in societies of the Asia-Pacific region. Students who complete this subject should: have a thorough understanding of the way in which anthropologists have approached political organisation in non-western societies; have acquired a knowledge of the ethnographic literature on the dynamics of political organisation in societies categorised in the literature as 'egalitarian' and 'hierarchical' in Australia, S. E. Asia and the Pacific; and have critically examined anthropological theories about the distribution of power in societies in relation to issues of colonialism and gender. |
Assessment | Written work or equivalent totalling 5000 words. |
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