Reading Schedule:

WEEK'S TOPIC

READINGS AND DISCUSSION

INTRODUCTION

August 18:Course “nuts and bolts” and topical introduction

Film:  Spice Island Saga

STATE FORMATION IN SOUTHEAST ASIA

August 25: Defining Characteristics of Southeast Asian Society and Politics. Geographical & Economic Features of Southeast Asia. 

Readings:

  1. Day, Tony. Fluid Iron: State Formation in Southeast Asia
  2. Hutterer, Karl L. “People and Nature in the Tropics” in Hutterer et al. Cultural Values and Human Ecology in Southeast Asia (on reserve).
  3. McNeely, Jeff and Jeffrey Sayer. “Shifting Cultivation” in Collins, N. Mark, Jeffery Sayer and Timothy C. Whitmore (eds.). The Conservation Atlas of Tropical Forests: Asia and the Pacific (on reserve).

September 1: Defining Characteristics (cont.).

Readings:

  1. Day, Tony. Fluid Iron: State Formation in Southeast Asia
  2. Slamet-Velsink, Ina. ”Connections Between Pre-history and the Ethnographic Present”in Emerging Hierarchies(on reserve).
  3. Chandler, David P. “The Beginnings of Cambodian History” in A History of Cambodia (on reserve).

HISTORICAL ISSUES OF ETHNIC AND CULTURAL IDENTITIES

September 8: Inter-related Cultures of Southern China and Mainland SEA.  Champa, Funan, and the Empires of the Malay World.

Readings:

  1. Shaffer, Lynda N. Maritime Southeast Asia to 1500.
  2. Ellen, Roy. “Traders, Migration, and Ethnicity” in On the Edge of the Banda Zone Honolulu: U. of Hawaii Press, 2003(on reserve).
  3. O’Connor, Richard. “Agricultural Change and Ethnic Succession in Southeast Asian States.” Journal of Asian Studies (on reserve).

Film: Three Worlds of Bali

September 15: Inter-related Cultures of Southern China and Mainland SEA (cont.) Buddhism and Confucianism.

Readings:

  1. Shaffer, Lynda N. Maritime Southeast Asia to 1500.
  2. R.B. Smith, “The Cycle of Confucianization in Vietnam” (on reserve).
  3. Swearer, Donald. “Buddhism as a Civil Religion” in the Buddhist World of Southeast Asia (on reserve).

TRADE AND TRADE NETWORKS IN SOUTHEAST ASIA

September 22: Classic States of Southeast Asia, AD 1000-1500.

Readings:

  1. Abu-Lughod, Janet L. Before European Hegemony
  2. Hall, Kenneth. “Economic History of Early Southeast Asia” in Tarling, Nicholas. The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia, pp. 183-226. (on reserve).
  3. Hall, Kenneth. “Economic History of Early Southeast Asia” in Tarling, Nicholas. The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia, pp. 226-272. (on reserve).

Film: Dance of the Warriors

 

No class meeting on September 29th

Day reserved for undergraduate student conferences regarding annotated bibliographies

 

October 6:  Classic States of Southeast Asia, AD 1000-1500 (cont.).

Readings:

  1. Abu-Lughod, Janet L. Before European Hegemony
  2. Stargardt, Janice. “Hydraulic Works and Southeast Asian Polities” in Marr, David G. and A.C. Milner (eds.). Southeast Asia in the 9th to 14th Centuries (on reserve).
  3. Wheatley, Paul. “Introduction: Down to the Golden Chersonese” in The Golden Khersonese (on reserve).

Film: East of Krakatoa

 

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6TH

UNDERGRADUATES' ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHIES DUE IN CLASS

FALL BREAK: October 8, Friday - Instruction Ends for Fall Break 6:00 p.m

  October 13, Wednesday - Classes resume after Fall Break 8:00 a.m

WEEK'S TOPIC

READINGS AND DISCUSSION

THE COLONIAL EXPERIENCE IN SOUTHEAST ASIA

 

October 13: Late Classical Period and Early European Encroachments. The Coming of Islam.

 

Reading:

  1. Reid, Anthony. Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce 1450-1680 Volume Two
  2. Reid, Anthony. “The Islamization of Southeast Asia” in Charting the Shape of Early Modern Southeast Asia (on reserve).
  3. Andaya, Leonard. Cultural State Formation in Eastern Indonesia” in Reid, Anthony (ed.). Southeast Asia in the Early Modern Era (on reserve).
  4. “The Eighteenth-Century World” in In Search of Southeast Asia

 

October 20: Early European Encroachments (cont.).

 

Reading:

1.      Reid, Anthony. Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce 1450-1680 Volume Two

  1. Irwin, Graham. “Malacca Fort” in Michael Adas (ed.) Technology and European Overseas Enterprise: Diffusion, Adaptation, and Adoption (on reserve).
  2. Lewis, Dianne “Malacca in Malay History to 1641” in Jan Compagnie in the Straits of Malacca 1641-1795 (on reserve).
  3. “New Challenges to Old Authority” in In Search of Southeast Asia

Film: Dream Wanderers of Borneo

 

October 27: Western Colonial Influence on the Cultures and Economies of SEA.

Reading:

1.       Reid, Anthony. Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce 1450-1680 Volume Two

2.    Maxwell, Allen R. “Headhunting and the Consolidation of Political Power in the Early Brunei State” in Janet Hoskins (ed.). Headhunting and the Social Imagination in Southeast Asia (on reserve).

3.    Selth, Andrew. “Race and Resistance in Burma, 1942-1945” in Modern Asian Studies (on reserve).

4.       “Frameworks for Nations” in In Search of Southeast Asia

 

NATIONALISM AND NATIONALIST MOVEMENTS IN SOUTHEAST ASIA

 

November 3: Southeast Asian Response to Colonial Expansion, ca. 1900-1990’s.

Reading:

1.      Anderson, Benedict. The Spectre of Comparisons

2.      Rafael, Vincent L. “Nationalism, Imagery, and the Filipino Intelligentsia in the Nineteenth Century.” in Critical Inquiry (on reserve).

3.      Ileto, Reynaldo. “Rizal and the Underside of Philippine History” in Filipinos and Their Revolution: Event, Discourse, and Historiography (on reserve).

4.      “Social Change and the Emergence of Nationalism” in In Search of Southeast Asia

 

November 10: Southeast Asian Response (cont.).

Reading:

1.       Anderson, Benedict. The Spectre of Comparisons

2.       Schneider, Andreas. “Nationalism, National Awakening and Ethnic Approaches in Laos at the End of World War II” in Thomas Engelbert et al. (eds.) Ethnic Minorities and Nationalism in Southeast Asia(on reserve).

3.       Carsten, Janet. “The Politics of Forgetting: Migration, Kinship and Memory on the Periphery of the Southeast Asian State” in The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (on reserve).

4.       “Southeast Asian Nations in a New World Order” in In Search of Southeast Asia

Film: From the Barrel of a Gun.

November 17:

Class Presentations

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17TH

GRADUATE ESSAYS DUE

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17TH

UNDERGRADUATE ESSAYS DUE

NOVEMBER 24: NO CLASS

THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY

December 1:

Class Presentations

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1st  

LAST DAY

OF HIS 588 CLASSES