Online Courses Handbook 2003

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

Area:	School of Social Sciences
Contact Hours:	3.0
Credits:	25.0
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
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.