Explores cultural identity in the contemporary world; as a construction within specific historical, spatial and cultural contexts; the central themes of identity, self, culture, place, difference and tradition; the relationship of European and non-European worlds through a study of the construction of knowledge of "the Other" in sociological and anthropological work; cross-cultural realities of our contemporary world and the growing interdependence cultures between North and South; difference by starting with our own worlds and interrogating how we encounter difference, especially in the context of a globalising world; the construction of "Other" cultures and the way we seek to know them. Questions the extent to which we know things through their difference or sameness.

On completion of this course, students should be able to: