The emphasis will be on the significance of religion and music on economic, political and social organization of the people as well as on the contemporary pressures forcing change as a result of contact with Euro-Australian society. The course will consist of seminars and discussion. Not Offered 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. Regional nationalism, subjectivities and citizenship, and new forms of work will all come under scrutiny.
Topics vary from year to year.