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136-013 Culture Change and Protest Movements | |
Note | Formerly available as 136-281/381. Students who have completed 136-281/381 are not eligible to enrol in this subject. |
Availability | 2nd and 3rd year |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
Coordinator | Dr Monica Minnegal |
Prerequisites | see Prerequisites |
Semester | Not Offered (view timetable) |
Contact | Two 1-hour lectures, ten 2-hour lectures and ten 1-hour tutorials during the semester |
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 | Two class papers of 500 words each, and an essay of 3000 words. |
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