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ANTH3615: Ethnography of Southeast Asia
2023 unit information
Southeast Asia is a region of great geographic and cultural diversity, a meeting point for civilisational influences from India and China including the religions of Islam, Buddhism and Hinduism. It is also the laboratory for much anthropological inquiry, attracting the attention of prominent anthropologists and social scientists, including Clifford Geertz and Benedict Anderson. This unit will examine Southeast Asia in historical and contemporary context, and draw on ethnographies dealing with issues such as nationalism, ethnic minorities and the nation state, gender and modernity, drugs and development, and the rural-urban divide.
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Arts and Social Sciences
| Study level | Undergraduate |
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| Academic unit | Anthropology |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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12 credit points at 2000 level in Anthropology |
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Corequisites:
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None |
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None |
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None |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. understand why southeast Asia is treated as a geographic subfield within anthropology including both the strengths and the limitations of regional specialisation
- LO2. identify a scholar's claims with respect to the body of ethnographic and other scholarly literature on this region
- LO3. apply general theories of culture, society and historical formation of social systems to particular problems of interpretation that emerge within a specific geographic setting and among a group of cultures related by common history and environmental factors
- LO4. undertake independent library research to make use of the concepts and the research findings of scholars to support and develop their own ideas
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