ANTH238-09S1 (C) Semester One 2009

Exploring the Past

22 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 23 February 2009
End Date: Sunday, 28 June 2009
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 8 March 2009
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 24 May 2009

Description

This course provides students with a framework for structured reflection on the relationship between history, anthropology and sociology.

This course is FRESH, FUNKY and FASCINATING!! It is a ‘hands-on’ introduction to historical inquiry taught through a combination of workshops, tutorials and field trips. Exploring the Past begins with an attempt to find common ground between the disciplines of anthropology and history. We visit two local archives and carry out a structured controversy exercise that seeks to establish whether the two disciplines are fundamentally distinct or share mutual areas of interest.

In the class sessions that follow, we explore three case studies: death, museums and film. Our focus here is on (a) ways we might approach the past, including the use of documentary sources, material culture, visual media and oral histories and (b) the kinds of questions that confront those of us engaged in historical work (especially in museums). Who owns the past? Who may interpret the past? Whose story is it? Who should tell it?

Some of the topics covered in the course in 2009 will be:

The Uses of the Past
What's in the Archives?
Death and Memory
Resurrecting the Prehistoric Dead
Aladdin's Cave: Exotic Story Telling in Museums
The Museum as Collector
Voices from the Past
The Past on Film: 'Reel History'?

Prerequisites

18 points of Anthropology at 100 level. Students with at least a B average in 36 points of appropriate courses may be admitted with the approval of the Director of the Anthropology programme.

Restrictions

HIST288, SOCI238, SOCI338

Equivalent Courses

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Lyndon Fraser

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Controversy Exercise 10%
Learning Journal 40%
Museum Concept Description 50%

Textbooks / Resources

Required Texts

SOCI 238 Course Reader ; (Medium: Readings).

Course links

Library portal

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $782.00

International fee $3,263.00

* 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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