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Duration
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Prior study
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Subject details
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- • Anthropology.
- • Humans.
- • Animals.
- • Anthrozoology.
- • Human/animal relations.
Others
Past La Trobe University students who have previously completed ANT3ANI (Humans and Animals: Anthropological Perspectives) are ineligible to enrol in this subject.
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Human and animal relations are basic to society; across all walks of life and in all cultures humans and animals have formed diverse and enduring relationships, and animals have long been used to tell us about what it means to be human. This subject will explore historical, cross cultural and contemporary anthropological perspectives on human and animal relations in small scale societies, in agriculture, in industrialised societies and in leisure culture. In doing so, it will investigate themes such as totemism, animal utility, animal companionship, endangered animals, the human/animal divide and post-humanism.
- Online quizzes (800 word equivalent) (20%)
- Reflective written assignment (1000 word equivalent) (30%)
- Major essay (2000 word equivalent) (50%)
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