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The course provides a critical introduction to the historical and current debates of culture, indigeneity and citizenship. The course focuses on debates that move beyond conventional notions of culture, indigeneity and citizenship, and treats these as strategic concepts that are central in the analysis of global/local identities, participation, empowerment, and human rights. Understanding how other societies, populations, groups and individuals organise their lives and give meaning to their existence enables us to develop theoretically informed tools for providing practical analysis and advice in the shaping/construction of human services agencies and practice.
The course provides a critical view of the contemporary and historical situation of indigenous people and the ways in which anthropologists have studied them. The course pays attention especially to the wider socio-political and economic contexts that indigenous people have experienced and continue to live in. This includes questions relevant to colonial and post-colonial contexts, the relationship between indigenous people and the modem nation-state, and their position within a globalized world. It deals with issues relating to sustainable development, self-determination and indigenous rights, drawing on fields such as the anthropology of development, environmental and ecological anthropology, and political anthropology. The question of cultural survival is also addressed through anthropological analyses of genocide and ethnocide, constructions of identity involving the objectification of culture, and the nature and extent of appropriation and modification of culture by both indigenous peoples and those with whom they have political and economic relationships. The nature and effects of hegemonic rule, accommodation of new cultural elements, subaltern resistance and the development ofnew identities and movements, are also included. These are all topics on which there has been extensive anthropological research and publication. Anthropological advocacy is discussed in relation to indigenous rights and the preservation of cultural knowledge and diversity.
At the end of the course students should have gaineda) empirical knowledge aboutthe historical and contemporary situation of indigeous peoplethe socio-cultural diversity of indigenous peoplethe resistance of indigenous people against extinction, oppression and marginalizationthe struggle of indigenous people for rights and equal life optionschances and options of indigenous people to decide for their own futureb) theoretical knowledge aboutdebates on anthropological representationdebates on environment and developmentconcepts of cultureconcepts ofidentity and ethnicitydebates on genocide and anthropology of violencedebates of advocacy / action anthropologyhuman rights debatesdebates on Intellectual Property Rights
30 points from HSRV101, HSRV102, HSRV103, HSRV104, SOWK101, SOWK102 and SOWK104. Students without this prerequisite but with at least 60 points in appropriate courses may enter the course with the permission of the Programme Coordinator.
ANTH104
Yvonne Crichton-Hill
Piers Locke and Zhifang Song
Jo Tondo
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Domestic fee $595.00
International fee $2,588.00
* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.
For further information see Language, Social and Political Sciences .