3869 (v.6) Anthropology 313 - Race, Bodies and Culture

Area:

Department of Social Sciences

Credits:

50.0

Contact Hours:

3.0

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Lecture:

1 x 2 Hours Weekly

Tutorial:

1 x 1 Hours Weekly

Anti Requisite(s):

7369 (v.6) Anthropology 213 - Race, Bodies and Culture

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:

'Race' has signified many things over time - ancestry, blood, skin colour, foreign values and an inability to integrate. Yet it has been claimed that however much 'race' changes its meaning, traces of the old meaning linger. This unit looks at the past, present and possible future meanings of race and how Australia, in particular, defines and deals with race issues, focusing on the census as an instrument of bio-politics, racialised ethnicities, Aboriginal identity, 'whiteness', multiculturalism and genetic research. Cultural understandings of the ways our bodies differ are examined through the lens of scientific and every day practices.

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Field of Education:

090303 Anthropology

Funding Cluster:

05 - Behavioural Science, Social Studies

SOLT (Online) Definitions*:

Informational
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information

Result Type:

Grade/Mark

Availability

Year	Location	Period	Internal	Partially Online Internal	Area External	Central External	Fully Online
2006	Bentley Campus	Semester 2	Y

Area External	refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.
Central External	refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area
Partially Online Internal	refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External
Fully Online	refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External