How might an anthropologist explain New Zealand society and culture, especially relations between its indigenous, settler, and migrant communities?This course looks at how our archipelago has been re-imagined and transformed over time, from the ancient isolate named Aotearoa by Maori, to becoming a far-off colony of Britain, to its emergence as a sovereign Pacific nation, and most recently as an outlier in an increasingly globalised world.

• To provide a practically-oriented anthropology course at first-year level that complements our other discipline-focussed course (ANTH-101 Exploring Cultures: Introduction to Anthropology).
• To offer an innovative paper that can be co-listed by other programmes at this University - e.g. Maori and Indigenous Studies, Pacific and Indigenous Studies, and New Zealand Studies/Akoranga Aotearoa.
• To illustrate our programme’s international reputation for teaching and research excellence from the perspective of sociocultural anthropology, with a focus on Aotearoa/New Zealand and Te Moananui-a-Kiwa/The Pacific.

This course is offered in FLEXI mode i.e. learning will be available both face-to-face and online.

1. There are two lectures you must attend either in person or via panopto - Tuesday 11am, S.1.02 and Thursday 1pm, MSB.1.01

2. Students are required to attend a one hour tutorial class taken by one of the tutors for this course, Esther Liddle and Mona-Lisa Wareka. These classes will serve two main aims. First, to reiterate and clarify any key points from the weekly lectures. Second, they will be used to encourage discussion of the allocated readings for that weekly period. As such, students will be expected to have done the prescribed readings, and to be ready to enter into shared discussion with other students and the tutor. These tutorial classes also are where students will receive more detailed information about assessment items.These classes will take place face-to-face in the scheduled times, though any students unable to attend these will instead be able to attend a one-hour Zoom tutorial as an equivalent. Further details on these will be provided in the first week of semester - when signing-up for a tutorial also will be possible.