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 136-281 Culture Change and Protest Movements

Note

Available as 136-381 at 3rd-year level.

Credit Points

16.7 2nd and 3rd year

Coordinator

Dr Monica Minnegal

Prerequisites

None.

Semester

2

Contact

Two hours of lectures and a 1-hour tutorial a week

Subject Description

Problems of culture change and responses to the influence of Western societies on the non-Western world, including cultural protest. Students who complete this subject should: have a knowledge of the range and variety of ways in which non-Western societies have evolved and acculturated under the influence of western missionisation, colonialisation and imperial control; have mastered the principal anthropological approaches to the study of acculturation and theories of social change; have engaged in a critical assessment of the impact of western cultures on the non-Western world; and have acquired a knowledge of the ethnographic and ethnological literature on Africa, south and South-East Asia, Melanesia and South America.

Assessment

Written work or equivalent totalling 5000 words.



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