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ANTH361: The Anthropology of Politics and Power
Politics and power can be thought of as intimate aspects of all subjects of anthropological investigation, as processes of domination, resistance and social transformation are inevitably involved in the creation and representation of cultural practices and meanings. In this unit students identify and compare the themes—explicit or otherwise—that dominate the composition of a number of classical political ethnographies, while also exploring the wider question of their colonial contexts, and how this context influenced the development of anthropological knowledge. The second half of the unit examines how some of these themes may still be of relevance in illuminating more contemporary manifestations of power, including forms of political practice such as nationalism and related projects of social transformation; violence and terror; gender; resistance; collaboration and; reconciliation. A continuing concern of the unit is to explore how the writing of ethnography and the making of ethnographic film—textual and visual representation—are implicated in these issues.
| Credit Points: | 4 |
| Contact Hours: | 3 |
| When Offered: | 2011 - Next offered in 2011 |
| Staff Contact(s): | Dr Chris Houston |
| Prerequisites: |
30cp or admission to GDipAnth |
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| Assessed As: | Graded |
| Offered By: | Department of Anthropology |
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