Caution
Copyright © Monash University 1996
ISBN 1320-6222
Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996
Anthropology is the discipline within the university which is concerned with the study of culture in general and of other cultures and their social organisation in particular. These other cultures may be the cultures of other societies, minority cultures within our own country, or the cultures of our own past. All anthropology staff have deep and intensive research experience in other societies and their cultures and bring to the subjects we offer, whether they be about others or ourselves, a distinctly anthropological perspective, an understanding of and respect for cultural difference. The ethnographic expertise of the department ranges through South and South-East Asia, Melanesia and southern Africa to the study of minority communities and their cultures in Australia, incorporating a range of theoretical perspectives. Anthropology staff provide students throughout the department with access to subjects which are crosscultural and comparative. Anthropology is only offered on the Clayton campus.
An honours year is available in anthropology and the department also offers a coursework MA program which allows for specialist interests in anthropology, comparative sociology, gender and feminism, as well as postgraduate research degrees.
Educational objectives for the Department of Anthropology and Sociology are to be found under the entry for Sociology and Comparative Sociology.
Students enrol for honours at the end of their third year and must have obtained at least credit grades in anthropology subjects to the value of twenty-four points at second and third-year level combined of which sixteen points must be at third-year level.
Combined honours may be taken in anthropology and another discipline provided that all honours requirements have been met in both disciplines and subject to the approval of the heads of both departments/centres. Mid-year entry is not offered in anthropology.
Although no specific second or third-year subjects are prerequisites for honours, prospective honours students may be advised to take additional subjects in second and/or third year, and certain subjects may be particularly recommended by the department.
+ ANY1020 Anthropology of social change
+ ANY2110 Magic, science and religion
+ ANY2130 Race and sexual politics
+ ANY2160 Understanding prejudice and discrimination
+ ANY2190 Comparative social structures
+ ANY2230 Culture and society: introduction to cultural theory (proposed to be offered next in 1997)
+ ANY3250 The anthropology of witchcraft and sorcery (proposed to be offered next in 1997)
+ ANY3290 Advanced anthropology, part I
+ ANY3300 Advanced anthropology, part II
+ ANY3370 Comparative sociology of `development' (proposed to be offered next in 1997)
+ ANY3430 Civilisation and its malcontents
+ ANY3470 Australia in Papua New Guinea
+ ANY3480 The third world
+ ANY3490 Society and culture in South East Asia
+ ANY3510 A comparative examination of cultures in South and South-East Asia
+ ANY3570 Socio-ecology
+ ANY3590 Systems theory
+ ANY3610 Urbanisation in the third world
+ ANY3630 Feminism cross-culturally
+ ANY3640 Structuralisms and poststructuralisms (proposed to be offered next in 1998)
+ ANY3650 The social construction of disabilities
To gain an honours degree in anthropology a student is required successfully to complete ANY4380 (Thesis), ANY4400 (Ethics, theory and method in anthropological research) and ANY4440 (Asia and the West).
A student who is granted permission to complete fourth-year honours over two years will take ANY4400 (Ethics, theory and method in anthropological research) and ANY4440 (Asia in the West) in first year, and ANY4380 (Thesis) in the second.
+ ANY4380 Thesis in anthropology
+ ANY4400 Ethics, theory and method in anthropological research
+ ANY4440 Asia and the West
The due date for the submission of final coursework and the thesis by students to the department is the last day of the final semester of the honours program (Friday 7 June in first semester 1996, Friday 1 November in second semester 1996). Any request for an extension of time of more than one week must be submitted to the Committee for Undergraduate Studies no later than two weeks before the end of the final semester.