AN1002:03
Anthropology 1B: Australia and Regional Culture
Townsville, Cairns
26 lectures, 12 tutorials. Second semester.
Staff: Dr R Bastin, Professor B Kapferer, Dr D Miles (Townsville campus); Dr M Wood (Cairns campus).
The emergence of anthropological thought in the study of Australian Aboriginal cultures and the cultures of Papua New Guinea, the Pacific and Southeast Asia; the relationship of people to the land; religion and cosmology; the impact of colonialism in Australia and the Pacific; contemporary cultural issues and debates affecting minorities.
Learning Objectives:
- acquisition of ability to identify issues and subject areas associated with anthropology;
- understanding and appreciation of the cultures and peoples of North Queensland and its near neighbours;
- critical assessment of everyday assumptions about cultural difference;
- ability to discuss and write about questions of culture, tolerance and change in the region.
Assessment by tutorial attendance and participation (10%); review of an ethnography (15%); essay of not more than 2,000 words (25%); two-hour end of semester examination (50%).
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