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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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