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ANTH3618: Indigenous Australians Today
2021 unit information
The unit uses an anthropological lens to examine how Indigenous Australians have long engaged with a diversity of non-Indigenous practices, ideas and values as they continue to articulate distinct Indigenous lives. It investigates ethnographically changing Indigenous lifeworlds since colonisation with a focus on state policy and rights politics.
Unit details and rules
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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 the Anthropology major |
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Corequisites:
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None |
| Prohibitions:
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ANTH2630 |
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None |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. understand diversity and commonality in contemporary Indigenous social orders;
- LO2. understand the relevance of intellectual engagement with post-colonial, decolonial and critical race theories in social anthropology;
- LO3. demonstrate an advanced, ethnographically-based understanding of how changing state policies impact on Indigenous Australians' lives in different social and cultural contexts;
- LO4. examine ways in which Indigenous peoples are able to creatively resist or reimagine the impositions of modernity;
- LO5. critically evaluate arguments that emerge in public debate and reporting on Indigenous matters;
- LO6. apply skills in critical reading, research design, and writing for anthropological analysis.
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