2009 Course Handbook
ANTH381: Postcolonial Bodies
This course introduces students to the centrality of the body in human experience through the continuing effects of colonialism into the present. Postcolonial bodily identity is explored through the medium of memory, displacement, trauma and illness, but also through zones of experience such as death and childbirth, music and dance. Drawing on the resources of powerful descriptive ethnography, this course provides a strong grounding for students in three intersecting areas of discourse: in anthropology, in postcolonial theory, and in the work of key philosophers in the phenomenological tradition.
| Credit Points: | 4 |
| Contact Hours: | 3 |
| When Offered: | 2010 - offered in 2010 |
| Staff Contact: | Dr Kalpana Ram |
| Prerequisites: | 36cp or admission to GDipAnth |
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| Unit Designations: | Social Science |
| Assessed As: | Graded |
| Offered By: |
Department of Anthropology |