West Indian Societies 26S Major social issues in Caribbean societies. Pre-conquest social organization, slavery, race and class, plantation and peasant organization, family structure, cultural pluralism and the nation state, rural and international migration, social change. 26S Examines recent shifts in the currents of European society and European thought which are closely related to social change. Regional nationalism, subjectivities and citizenship, and new forms of work, will all come under scrutiny. Unique opportunity to explore a particular anthropological topic in-depth.
Topics vary from year to year.
Open only to advanced students with an adequate background in Anthropology. Application for enrolment should be made to the Department in the preceding term.