121-063 Culture Change and Protest Movements

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.

Two class papers of 500 words each and an essay of 3000 words.