8572 (v.7) Anthropology 216 - State and Society in Buddhist Southeast Asia


 

Area:Department of Social Sciences
Credits:25.0
Contact Hours:3.0
Lecture:1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Anti Requisite(s):3802 (v.5) Anthropology 316 - State and Society in Buddhist Southeast Asia
Prerequisite(s):1973 (v.4) Anthropology 112 - Social and Cultural Anthropology in a Changing World or any previous version
AND
7367 (v.4) Anthropology 111 - The Anthropological Imagination or any previous version
Syllabus:State and society in Buddhist Southeast Asia. This unit aims to develop an understanding of Theravadin Buddhist societies in mainland Southeast Asia - mainly Thailand. Interrelationship between state, monarchy and religion. The practical and totalising implications of religious ideology, historical processes and everyday categories of thought and action.
 

 

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