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 121-063 Culture Change and Protest Movements

Note

Formerly available as 136-281/381/013. Students who have completed 136-281/381/013 are not eligible to enrol in this subject.

Credit Points

12.5

HECS Band

1

Coordinator

Dr Monica Minnegal

Semester

Not Offered (view timetable)

Subject Description

This subject tackles 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 missionaries, colonialisation and imperial control; mastered the principal anthropological approaches to the study of acculturation and theories of social change; engaged in a critical assessment of the impact of western cultures on the non-western world; acquired a knowledge of the ethnographic and ethnological literature on Africa, South and Southeast Asia, Melanesia and South America.



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