200-level

ANTH212
Kinship and Family in Comparative Perspective
Description
This course is designed to help students understand the importance of kinship and family in human societies and appreciate the complexities and variation in how kinship and family are conceptualized and practised in different cultures. In this course, we will discuss classic and contemporary case studies of kinship and family in cultures and societies around the world, including Africa, China, Europe, the United States, and the Pacific area (including New Zealand), to list just a few. In examining these cases and case studies, we will probe the issues of biology and culture, personhood and subjectivity, and structure and human agency in varied ways of conceptualizing and practising kinship in different cultures. This course also covers comprehensive knowledge of historical and contemporary theories and methods in kinship and family studies to help students develop critical perspectives on how kinship and family are practised in contemporary life.
Occurrences
Semester Two 2024
Points
15 points
Prerequisites
Any 15 points at 100 level from ANTH or SOCI or any 60 points at 100 level from the Schedule V of the BA.
Restrictions
ANTH312
ANTH213
Environment, Development and Sustainability: Anthropological Perspectives
Description
This course is concerned with the social and ecological impacts of human activity in the context of a global fossil fuel civilization. Investigating problems of climate change, declining biodiversity, and environmental degradation, it provides an anthropologically informed perspective on crucial issues at the intersection of ecology, sustainable development, and social activism.
Occurrences
Semester One 2024
Points
15 points
Prerequisites
Any 15 points at 100 level from ANTH, GEOG, or SOCI, or 60 points at 100 level from the Schedule V of the BA.
Restrictions
ANTH313
ANTH223
Ethnicity, Racism and Genocide
Description
This course provides a critical introduction to the historical and anthropological study of ethnicity, racism, genocide and migration.
Occurrences
Semester Two 2024
Points
15 points
Prerequisites
Any 15 points at 100 level from ANTH, HIST, MAOR, or SOCI, or 60 points at 100 level from the Schedule V of the BA.
Restrictions
HIST283, MAOR230, PACS204, SOCI223
MAOR230
Ethnicity, Racism and Genocide
Description
This course provides a critical introduction to the historical and anthropological study of ethnicity, racism, genocide and migration.
Occurrences
Semester Two 2024
Points
15 points
Prerequisites
Any 15 points at 100 level from ANTH, HIST, MAOR, SOCI, or TREO, or any 60 points at 100 level from the Schedule V of the BA.
Restrictions
ANTH223, HIST283, PACS204, SOCI223, SOCI323
HIST283
Ethnicity, Racism and Genocide
Description
This course provides a critical introduction to the historical and anthropological study of ethnicity, racism, genocide and migration.
Occurrences
Semester Two 2024
Points
15 points
Prerequisites
Any 15 points at 100 level in HIST, ANTH, MAOR, PACS, or SOCI, or CLAS120, or any 60 points at 100 level from the Schedule V of the BA.
Restrictions
ANTH223, MAOR230, PACS204, SOCI223
ANTH298
Religion and Society: Why God Won't Die
Description
This course is an introduction to the Sociology & Anthropology of religion focused on thinking and rethinking religion, culture & society. Central to the discussion is why god and religion has not disappeared as was predicted in much modern social theory. In considering this question, the course provides a critical discussion of the ways religion, god and religious practices have been thought, dismissed and applied over the past 150 years within the Sociology & Anthropology of Religion.
Occurrences
Semester One 2024
Points
15 points
Prerequisites
Any 15 points at 100 level from ANTH or SOCI, or any 60 points at 100 level from the Schedule V of the BA.
Restrictions
SOCI278, SOCI292, SOCI392 in 2012

Not Offered Courses in 2024

200-level

ANTH202
Politics, Power and Capitalism
Description
This course poses fundamental questions about the domain of "the political" in relation to interest, influence, and power. It applies these concerns to the dominant social, political, and economic system of our times - capitalism. Concerned with its historical and geographical spread, its ideological manifestations, its crises, and its oppositional movements, it introduces students to critical ethnographies that explore issues of wealth and inequality, protest and control, and the role of military, technological, and economic power in contemporary societies.
Occurrences
ANTH202-24S1 (C)
Semester One 2024 - Not offered
For further information see ANTH202 course details
Points
15 points
Prerequisites
Any 15 points at 100 level from ANTH or SOCI, or any 60 points at 100 level from the Schedule V of the BA.
Restrictions
ANTH302
PACS202
The Pacific Islands: Early European and Polynesian Visions
Description
This course looks at how European and Polynesian visions of 'the other' have intersected over the course of the last five centuries within the Pacific region
Occurrences
Not offered 2024
For further information see PACS202 course details
Points
15 points
ANTH207
Visual Anthropology
Description
This course is about visual representations of culture and cultural difference. It looks at a wide variety of visual media, including art, photography, film, video, and digital technologies, to explore the ways in which these shape both the perception, and the experience, of cultural difference.
Occurrences
Not offered 2024, offered in 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2017
For further information see ANTH207 course details
Points
15 points
ANTH208
Food and Eating
Description
This course explores the food chain, from production, through consumption, to exchange and considers the ways in which food is implicated in the reproduction of and resistance to, inequalities of class, gender, ethnicity and nationalism.
Occurrences
Not offered 2024, offered in 2011 , 2013 , 2015 , 2016
For further information see ANTH208 course details
Points
15 points
ANTH212
Kinship and Family in Comparative Perspective
Description
This course is designed to help students understand the importance of kinship and family in human societies and appreciate the complexities and variation in how kinship and family are conceptualized and practised in different cultures. In this course, we will discuss classic and contemporary case studies of kinship and family in cultures and societies around the world, including Africa, China, Europe, the United States, and the Pacific area (including New Zealand), to list just a few. In examining these cases and case studies, we will probe the issues of biology and culture, personhood and subjectivity, and structure and human agency in varied ways of conceptualizing and practising kinship in different cultures. This course also covers comprehensive knowledge of historical and contemporary theories and methods in kinship and family studies to help students develop critical perspectives on how kinship and family are practised in contemporary life.
Occurrences
ANTH212-24S1 (C)
Semester One 2024 - Not offered
For further information see ANTH212 course details
Points
15 points
Prerequisites
Any 15 points at 100 level from ANTH or SOCI or any 60 points at 100 level from the Schedule V of the BA.
Restrictions
ANTH312
ANTH219
Cultures on the Screen
Description
This course examines how cultures are represented via visual media both by anthropologists and non-Anthropologists. Using films and other visual media, accompanied by assigned readings, this course will help students understand problems and challenges associated with visual representation of cultures from anthropological perspectives.
Occurrences
ANTH219-24S1 (C)
Semester One 2024 - Not offered
For further information see ANTH219 course details
Points
15 points
Prerequisites
Any 15 points at 100 level from ANTH, HIST, MAOR, CINE, or SOCI, or 60 points at 100 level from the Schedule V of the BA.
Restrictions
ANTH319
ANTH238
Exploring the Past: Museums, Memory and Material Culture
Description
This course is a 'hands on' introduction to public history and public anthropology, taught through a combination of workshops, tutorials and field trips.
Occurrences
Not offered 2024, offered in 2023
For further information see ANTH238 course details
Points
15 points
ANTH250
Travel, Tourism and Pilgrimage
Description
The course introduces students to Sociological and Anthropological approaches to travel and tourism. Through the study of topics such as travel literature, indigenous tourism, tourism and development, sex tourism and 'dark' tourism, it examines the way in which notions of the cultural 'self' and cultural 'others' have been both forged and sustained within various sorts of tourist encounter.
Occurrences
ANTH250-24S2 (C)
Semester Two 2024 - Not offered
For further information see ANTH250 course details
Points
15 points
Prerequisites
Any 15 points at 100 level from ANTH or SOCI or any 60 points at 100 level from the Schedule V of the BA.
Restrictions
ANTH350, SOCI275, SOCI375
SOCI262
Food and Eating
Description
This course explores the food chain, from production, through consumption, to exchange and considers the ways in which food is implicated in the reproduction of, and resistance to, inequalities of class, gender, ethnicity and nationalism.
Occurrences
Not offered 2024
For further information see SOCI262 course details
Points
15 points
HIST288
Exploring the Past: Museums, Memory and Material Culture
Description
This course is a 'hands-on' introduction to public history and public anthropology taught through a combination of workshops, tutorials and field trips.
Occurrences
Not offered 2024
For further information see HIST288 course details
Points
15 points