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121-060 Power, Ideology and Inequality | |
Note | Formerly available as 136-277/377/010. Students who have completed 136-277/377/010 are not eligible to enrol in this subject. |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
HECS Band | 1 |
Coordinator | Dr Mary Patterson |
Semester | 2 (view timetable) |
Contact | A 2-hour lecture and a 1-hour tutorial per week |
Subject Description | This subject is a 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, Southeast 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 | An essay and a take-home exam totalling 4000 words. |
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