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Nov 14, 2024
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ANTH 203 - Contemporary Pacific Studies 4 credit(s) Oceania is a region of extraordinary cultural diversity, including Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. The Pacific has long been an object of European interest being imagined as a serene, exotic, and savage paradise. These images reflect Western desires and discourses, and counter everyday life in the Pacific Islands. This course will explore the relationship between western and local/indigenous representations of culture while also focusing on the dynamics of social life and transformations associated with de/colonization and globalization in the Pacific. Offered: Offered triennially.
Core Requirement(s): Counts toward core requirements: International Perspectives and Analyzing and Interpreting Texts.
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