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.
Unit details and rules
Academic unit | Anthropology |
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Credit points | 6 |
Prerequisites
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12 credit points at 2000 level in Anthropology |
Corequisites
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None |
Prohibitions
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None |
Assumed knowledge
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None |
Available to study abroad and exchange students | Yes |
Teaching staff
Coordinator | Anjalee Cohen, anjalee.cohen@sydney.edu.au |
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Guest lecturer(s) | Paul-David Lutz, paul-david.lutz@sydney.edu.au |