ANTH223-14S2 (C) Semester Two 2014

Ethnicity and History

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 14 July 2014
End Date: Sunday, 16 November 2014
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 27 July 2014
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 12 October 2014

Description

This course provides a critical introduction to the historical and anthropological study of ethnicity, race and migration, with a particular emphasis on New Zealand.

ANTH223/HIST283/MAOR230/PACS204/SOCI223 provides a critical introduction to the historical and anthropological study of ethnicity, race, nationalism, genocide, indigeneity, migration, assimilation, identity and the nation-state. The first part of the course draws on material from North America, Africa, the Caribbean, Europe, Australia and New Zealand to find ways in which we might analyse these ideas or themes in different times and places. We examine some of the main theoretical approaches to ethnicity and carry out a structured controversy exercise that allows us to apply these frameworks to a particular problem. After the mid-term break, we extend the course themes in a 'hands-on' way through local case studies that bring together 'the field and the archive'.

Our focus in both sections of ANTH223/HIST283/MAOR230/PACS204/SOCI223 is on:

(a) ways we might investigate concrete issues such as racism, ethnic violence, cultural survival, ethnic incorporation, nationalism, identity, migration, assimilation, diaspora and transnationalism

(b) the kinds of questions that confront those of us engaged in the historical, anthropological and sociological study of ethnicity. Does ethnicity matter? If so, when does it become important? How does it work in everyday life? What is the relationship between ethnicity and other kinds of social identification such as class, religion, gender and locality? How can we account for the complex layering of ethnic identities? What is the connection between ethnicity and culture? Why ethnicity?

Learning Outcomes

COURSE GOAL
This course aims to challenge taken-for-granted assumptions about ethnicity and to explore ways that we might understand, explain and compare ethnic phenomena in the past and in the contemporary world.

This course will enable each participant to:

-   consider the value of ethnicity as a conceptual tool for the study of everyday life
-   critically evaluate different approaches to ethnicity and nationalism
-   complete a research essay that applies frameworks developed in the course to
    the study of ethnicity in a specific historical context
-   reflect on course texts and learning experiences in a personal journal
-   contribute effectively in group and cooperative work
-   develop an appreciation for anthropology’s historical imagination

Prerequisites

15 points of ANTH at 100 level. Students with at least a B average in 30 points of appropriate courses may be admitted with the approval of the Anthropology Programme Director

Restrictions

Equivalent Courses

Course Coordinator

Lyndon Fraser

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Structured Controversy Exercise 08 Aug 2014 20%
Learning Journal 40% 22 August and 13 October
Research Essay 17 Oct 2014 40%

Textbooks / Resources

Readings are available on Learn.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $670.00

International fee $2,850.00

* 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 .

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