ANTH2625 - Culture and Development

Semester 1, 2012  |  Credit Points: 6

Coordinator: Robbie Peters
Phone: +61 2 9036 9399
Email: robbie.peters@sydney.edu.au

Description

Development is the tension between new forms of wealth, human wants and structures of inequality generated by capital; the attempts through state and international political and legal systems to control that process; and the specificity of the local social systems they seek to 'develop'. This unit compares the variety of local forms of this process in colonial, post-colonial, third- and fourth world settings. Key themes include: resource politics, religion, the politics of the family, ethnicity, corruption and contemporary violence.

Assessments

1x1500wd essay (45%), 1x2500wd essay (45%) and tutorial participation (10%)

Classes

1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week commencing week 2

Prerequisites

12 Junior credit points from Anthropology

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