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 136-002 Varieties of Human Experience

Note

Formerly available as 136-172. Students who have completed 136-172 are not eligible to enrol in this subject.

Availability

1st year

Credit Points

12.5

Coordinator

Dr Roger Just

Semester

2 (view timetable)

Contact

A 2-hour lecture and a 1-hour tutorial per week

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

An essay of 2000 words, and a 2-hour exam.

Prescribed Texts
  • E Evans-Pritchard, Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande. (Abridged ed) Clarendon Press 1976.
  • E Traube, Cosmology and Social Life: Ritual Exchange among the Mambai of East Timor. University of Chicago Press 1986.
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