THIRD YEAR,

Four third-year subjects are offered in the Department ofAnthropology. In some years only three will be given. They will each consist oftwo lectu¡es and one tutorial a week throughout the year. Essays and tutorial assignments will constitute the major ^part ofthe assessment in each subject.

Students taking third-year subjects and planning

to

take the Honours course must complete any two of the lour subjects offered.

It

is advisable that students who are interested

in

eventually proceeding to Honours discuss their choice of subjects with the Chairman of the Department before enrolling.

Assessment will be based on tutorial papers and three essays.

Reading lists will be available lrom the Department at the beginning of the year.

AA03 Anthropology IIIA.

ANrnnopor-ocv or TnrsnI- Socrerrns.

Pre-requisite: Pass in Anthropology at second-year level.

Through the use of detailed ethnographic material, namely lrom Melanesia, but including Africa, South America, and Australia. The course

will

examine some of the major anthropological issues arising from the study oftribal societies. First, the meanings and uses of such terms as "tribal", "primitive" and "t¡aditional" will be examined in te¡ms ofthe history ofanthropology. Attention will then be directed to ideas about the nature and organization oftribal societies, including their politics, economic organization and forms ofreligious exchange. The locus will then shift to theories about changes, continuity and evolutionary development

in

these societies. Finally, these societies

will

be con- sidered

in

the context of colonial expansion. There

will

be a wide range of possible readings for students, and the course co-ordinator should be consulted belore purchasing any. Among them will be:

Text-books: Barth, F., Ritual knowledge among the Baktaman of New Guinea (YaIe U.P.); Bateson,G.,Naven (StanfordU.P.); Diamond,S., 1¿ searchoftheprimitive(8.P.

Dutton); Turner, Y., Schism and continuity in an African society (Manchester U.P.).

AÄ13 AnthropologyIIIB.

Io¡olocrEs nNo INrquar-rtv.

Pre-requisite: Pass in Anthropology at second-year level.

This course will focus on peasant societies and the forces which have impinged upon, and continue to influence, the peasant experience; and within this perspective

it

will devote attention to the nature ofthe relationship between town and country, the arrangements pertaining to the production and distribution ol scarce resources, and the relationship bet\/een peasants and the state. As such, one of the issues

will

be the forms of sub- ordination to which peasants are subject, including herein the role ofcultural beliefs and ideological structures-structu¡es which may be constituted in part by the active partici- pation of peasants themselves. This exploration may be extended into a survey of the process ofurbanization and the experience olproletarians in modem cities. Both themes will incorporate attention to the role olthe state, particularly in colonial and Third World situations.

Within this lramework two regions will be utilised as the principal ethnographic arenas lor the course, viz.:

1

^{Medieval Europe} in the period extending lrom the eleventh century and encompassing the transition lrom feudalism to capitalism;

2. South Asia in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with particular reference to the institution ofcaste in an era ofcapitalist penetration.

Text-books: *Shanin, T. (ed.), Peasanls and peasant societies (Penguin); *K¡iedte, _{P., er} al., IndustrÌalízation before industrialization (C.U.P.); *Hilton, _{R. H.} (ed.), The transition fromfeudalism ^to capitalism (N.L.B.); *Scott, J. C., The moral economy of the peasant (Yale U.P.);

*Tilly, C.,

The vendee (Harvard U.P.); *Skocpol, -1., States and social revolutions (Cambridge U.P.); _{Dumont ,} L., Homo hierarchicus ^(Chicago U.P.); Breman, J., Patronage and exploìtation: changing agrarian relations in South Gujarat (California U.P.); Bromley, R., and Gerry, C. (eds), Casual work and poverty

in

Third World cities (Wiley); Cohen, R., et al., Peasants and proletarians (Hutchinson).

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Arts B.A.

AA23 AnthropologY IIIC.

Socr¡¡- Onc¡NISATtoN nNp CulrunE.

Pre-requisite: Pass in Anthropology at second-year level'

The discipline of Anthropology ^{is based} on two fundamental concepts-"society" ^and ,,culture',-which _{are uséd} to deûne, describe and analyse the object of study. As an

exploration

olanthropologica

^{his c}

ofvarious perspectives

about

^how

lrameworks skews both the

fo

^and

Each term ofthe course is devoted to the analytic lramework developed from the work

ol

th

ol

to o- menological and hermeneutic) which extend upon a Weberian perspective.

Text-books: Levi-Strauss,

C.,

The savage mind (Weidenfeld); Dumont,

L.'

Homo hÌerarchicus (Chicago U.P.); McLellan, D', Karl Marx: selectedwritings (O'U'P'); Weber,

M.,

The the'ory of social and economic organization (Free ^Press); Schutz,

A',

^The

p henomenology of the social world (Heinemann)'

AA33 Anthropology IIID.

Ausruu¡.N

SocterY AND CULTURE.

Pre-requisite: Pass in Anthropology at second-year level.

application to understanding Australia.

Within this framework considerable attention will be given to the particuiar "Australian- focuses on such themes as colonial ^society, city, gender, and the ideology of equality:

ments will be explored through the study of hetic production, folklore, ^and the literature on "Aussie" identity.

HONOURS DEGREE.

AA99 Honours Anthropology.

A

student who wishes to enrol for the Honours degree

in

Anthropology must have completed satisfactorily:

(i)

AA0l

Anthropology I;

(ii)

two lull subjects in Anthropology at second-year level, or their equivalent; and

(iii)

any two subjects in Anthropology given in the third year.

Hgnourg in Anthropology is a full year's course, involving weekly seminars, essays, and a final dissertation. Students wishing to take Honours should consult the Chairman ofthe Department during their third-year's work. Admission to the programme is subject to approval by the Chairman.

Assessment will be based on seminar papers, two essays and a dissertation.