Southeast Asia (P00663)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : SPS-P-SEASIA

Southeast Asia is a region known for its ecological , ethnic, religious and cultural diversity. The central theme of this course will be the idea of the boundary, marking off that which is similar from that which is different. How are cultural identities maintained where boundaries may be simultaneously drawn or erased; where what is 'other' can be incorporated and made similar or marked off and excluded. This course will look at boundaries, fixed and fluid, between highland and lowland societies, tribes and states, different religions, kin and non-kin. It will examine the simultaneous possibility of transformation and fixity in notions about the house, gender and personhood. Finally, it will consider the historical construction of community and nation, and discuss how history and memory are constituted in Southeast Asia.

Entry Requirements

none

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Postgraduate (School of Social and Political Studies), (School of Social and Political Studies, Schedule J)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : To be arranged/Unknown

? Contact Teaching Time : 2 hour(s) per week for 10 weeks

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

Students will be expected to demonstrate an advanced knowledge of how cultural identities are maintained and are transformed in a range of Southeast Asian societies. They will be expected to demonstrate ethnographic knowledge of a range of highland and lowland societies, of different forms of religious identity, and modes of kinship reckoning in Southeast Asia. Students will have an understanding of the analytic importance of the house, gender and personhood as principles in Southeast Asian Identity. They will have an advanced understanding of the political and historical contexts of the construction of community and nation in the Southeast Asian context.