Anthropology major
Anthropology asks the ultimate question for human beings: what does it mean to be human? Because of this, anthropology is the science that must understand both the physical and the metaphysical dimensions of human existence: how we both create and relate to our environment.
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Anthropology is the study of the lives of people in a range of societies. This major sequence investigates kinship and family; gender; economic and political anthropology; work and consumption; religion, ritual and witchcraft; person, society and cosmos; death; the impact of and problems caused by expanding European nations on the peoples of Africa and the Pacific; globalisation; processes of change in the Third World; international tourism; festivals; medical anthropology; communal conflict; ethnicity; international migration and doing fieldwork.
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Career and Industry
Students who wish to extend their studies to complete Anthropology Honours at Deakin University are eligible for normal membership in the Australian Anthropological Society. Such membership recognises the person's achievement of a sound understanding of issues, theories and methods associated with anthropology as a social science discipline.