AR3202:04
Critical Issues in Archaeology
Townsville
Prerequisites: AR2001 or AR2201
Inadmissable Subject Combination: AY3000
39 hours seminars. Second semester.
Staff: Assoc. Professor P Veth.
The subject will critically review contemporary models and discourse in world studies of archaeology. The subject examines the major debates affecting the discipline. Topics include: creation of middle range theory; perspectives concerning social change and evolution; reconstruction and representation of the past; indigenous control of cultural heritage; the position of archaeology within social sciences.
Learning Objectives:
- exploration of the interelations between anthropology and archaeology;
- understanding of the historical and intellectual context of the discipline;
- facilitation of critical thinking and writing in the discipline.
Assessment by seminars (25%); essay (50%); examination (25%).
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