Anthropology is paramount to understanding transformations in the Asian region and globally. The Asian region brings fresh insights to anthropological inquiry, illuminating processes of social transformation, technological innovation, and religious traditions. This minor covers key debates that are central to the changing social and cultural landscapes of Asia and beyond with a specialist focus on social ideologies, political institutions, and everyday practices. It brings to life the ongoing struggles of the region with regards to modernity and exclusion, environmental change, development, and the enduring cultural traditions across the Asian region, broadly conceived.
Learning Outcomes
- Understand and evaluate historical and current events and developments that have shaped relationships between people, places and cultures of Asia and the region.
- Identify and critique contemporary cultural practices mediated by local and global forces, such as migration patterns, religious systems, mass media, environmental traditions and development discourse.
- Analyse current debates relating to ethnographic methods, including both fieldwork and ethnographic writing in the context of colonial and postcolonial states.
- Understand the disciplinary approaches through which current knowledge about Asian ethnology has developed, along with wider processes of development, globalization, and modernization in Asia from a comparative perspective.
Areas of Interest
- Anthropology
- Cultural Studies
- Development Studies
- Environmental Studies
- Gender Studies
- Asia Pacific Studies
Relevant Degrees
Requirements
This minor requires the completion of 24 units, which must include:
12 units from completion of the following compulsory courses:
ANTH1003 Anthropology: Critical Foundations
ASIA2302 Culture and Modernity in Asia: Anthropological Perspectives
12 units from the following Anthropology of Asia courses:
ANTH2009 Culture and Development
ANTH2129 Crossing Borders: Migration, Displacement and Im/mobility
ASIA2041 Mainland Southeast Asia: Colonial and Postcolonial Predicaments
ASIA2039 Burma/Myanmar: A Country in Crisis
ASIA2099 Social Power in China
ASIA2112 Special Topics in Asian and Pacific Studies*
ASIA2167 Borders and their Transgressions in Mainland Southeast Asia
ASIA2747 Airlines in Asia and the Pacific: Histories, Technologies, Cultures, and Geographies
*The course topic needs to be relevant to anthropology to count towards this minor.
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