Online Courses Handbook 2003

10018 (v.2) Anthropology 114 - Social and Cultural Anthropology in a Changing World

Area:	School of Social Sciences
Contact Hours:	3.0
Credits:	12.5
Lecture:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial:	1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Anti Requisite(s):	1973 (v.4) Anthropology 112 - Social and Cultural Anthropology in a Changing World
Other Requisite(s):	Admission: To course outside the School of Social Sciences or approval of Head of School of Social Sciences.
Social and cultural anthropology in a changing world, the myth of the 'primitive isolate', nature, society and production in tribal and non industrial state societies, impact of the west upon tribal and non industrial state societies. Forms of resistance and reaction to western influence. Creation of the 'third world' and theories of 'development', peasant societies and agrarian transformation, urbanisation in the 'third world', the north/south divide and the environmental crisis.