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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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