ANTHROPOLOGY / ASIAN STUDIES

Anth 286/ HISTORY 172

SOUTHEAST ASIAN CIVILIZATIONS:

An Introduction to the History of Southeast Asia

This course provides a broad perspective on the development of civilizations in Southeast Asia over the past 2,000 years, from the earliest Indianized states to the present independent nations. Emphasis will be placed upon the role of commerce, the development of complex forms of political and social organization, the place of the great religions ‹ Hinduism, Therava- da Buddhism, Islam and Christianity ‹ in the growth of cultures of the region, and the impact of European colonialism and the world economy. The only usable textbook for such a course is Nicholas Tarling, editior (1992) Cambridge History of Southeast Asia, Volume I: From Early Times to c. 1800 (Cambridge University Press). You need not purchase this large and expensive volume. There is a copy on reserve in the Undergraduate Library for this class, and I have also made a Xerox copy available in the Anthropology Reading Room (189 Davenport Hall), from which you can easily photocopy those pages you need ‹ most of the material in the book you need only skim lightly, and my lectures will make quite clear and explicit what level of detail I want you to get from the book. The other readings, as assigned for the various lectures, are in a series of books (listed below) that are also on reserve in the Undergraduate Library for this course. That reserve collection also includes some additional books as Recommended Readings. The articles from the Journal of Southeast Asian Studies and the Journal of Asian Studies are in the Reserve Collection for this class in the Anthropology Department Reading Room. Gradng for the course will be based upon a mid-term (20%) and a final examination (35%), several quizzes (10%), and two essays, about 4 typewritten pages each (35%) ‹ the points in the course when the essays are due are shown in the attached syllabus. Make up examinations are allowed only upon presentation of a signed excuse from your College office.

COURSE SYLLABUS

Topics and Readings

I. An Introduction to Southeast Asia: Environment, Languages and Peoples.
Osborne Chapter 1 (Reserve)
Ulack & Pauer (Atlas- Reserve) part I
Richard A. O¹Connor IN Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 26, 1 1995

II. Prehistory: the Baseline for the Rise of Statecraft: Southeast Asia between India and China
Text, Chapter 2 (Bellwood)
Higham and Thosarat, Chapter 1
J. Miksic IN Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 26, 1
[It will also be informative to browse selectively in both Wheatley (which is encyclopædic) and Wolters (which is brief and synoptic) for some interesting provocative hypotheses on the rise of civilization in the region.]

III. The Rise of the Civilized States
Text, Chapters 3 and 4
Osborne Chapter 2
Hall and Whitmore Chapters 1, 2, and 3
Kathirithamby-Wells and Villiers: Chapters 2-5
Craig Reynolds IN The Journal of Asian Studies 54, 2 !995

At this point I shall hand out your first essay assignment, which is due a week thereafter.

IV. The Religious Basis of the Early States
Text, Chapter 5
Osborne Chapter 14 Gesick, browse, and especially Aung-Thwin¹s Chapter
Reid (Early Modern Era) Part III

V. The Early Political Order on the Mainland
Text, Chapter 4 (continued)
O¹Connor MS (available in Anthropology Department Reading Room))
Christie: ŒRaja and Rama: The Classical State in Early Java¹ in Gesick
Hall: ŒState and Statecraft in Early Srivijaya¹ in Hall and Whitmore
Browse in Marr and Milner: Chapters 1-5, 9, 12, 16, 17
Browse in Reid and Marr: Sections I and 2
Reid (Early Modern Era): Part I
Lehman , Freedom and Bondage
Wilson, ŒNineteenth Century Thai Social Structure¹
Aung-Thwin Pagan (Browse)

VI. Economy and Trade from the Period of the Early States to the Arrival of Islam and the Europeans
Text, Chapter 4 (continued) and 6-8
Browse in Reid (Age of Commerce) and Reid (Early Modern Era) Parts II and IV
Kathirithamby-Wells and Villiers: Chapters 6-12 (Browse only)

VII. Islam in Insular Southeast Asia (Professor C. E. Cunningham, lecturer)
Text, Chapter 9
Day in Gesick
Reid (Early Modern Era) Chapter 6

VIII. Burma and Thailand since 1500, A.D.
Reid (Early Modern Era), Chapters 9 and 10.
Lehman in Crossroads 6,2 (1991) (available only in Anthropology Department Reading Room)
Aung-Thwin ŒIrrigation¹
Lieberman Burmese Adminiostrative Cycles (Browse)
Hong Lysa (Browse)
Wyatt (Browse)

Second Essay to be handed out ‹ due in one week.

IX. Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos: The Split Image
Vuong in Marr and Milner
Browse in Chandler
Stewart-Fox in Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 24,1 (1993) (available in Anthropology Depart ment Reading Room only)
Jonsson, Hjorleifur MS (only in Anthropology Department Reading Room)

X. The Peripheral States: Ahom, Nanchao, Sulu, etc.
Text: see index under Nanchao Kingdom
Kathirithamby-Wells and Villiers, Chapters 5, 9, 10, and 12 Backus (Browse only)
Lehman ŒShan¹

XI. The Philippines: A Spanish Christian Legacy ( Lecturer: C. E. Cunnigham)

XII. Colonialism, Modernism, and New Social Orders
Osborne, Chapters 8-10
Cohen (Browse)
Wilson Nineteenth Century Thai Social Structure

XIII. Nationalism and New States
Osborne, Chapters 11-13
Final Examination: Thursday, 12 May, 1:30-4:30-

Reserve List

Aung-Thwin, Michael (1990) Irrigation in the Heartland of Burma. Occasional Paper No. 15, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Northern Illinois University (Monograph Series on Southeast Asia)

Chandler, David (1983) A History of Cambodia . Westview Press. *Christie, Jan Wisseman (1995) State Formation in Early Maritime Southeast Asia: A Consideration of the Theories and the Data. Bijdragen tot deTaal- Land- en Volkenkunde, 151, 2:235-288

Cohen, Erik (1991) Thai Society in Comparative Perspective. Bangkok: White Lotus

Gesick, Lorraine, ed. 1983) Centers, Symbols, and Hierarchies: Essays on the Classical States of Southeast Asia. Yale University Southeast Asia Studies, Monograph Series No. 26.

Hall, Kenneth R., and John K. Whitmore, eds. (1976) Explorations in Early Southeast Asian History: The Origins of Southeast Asian Statecraft. University of Michigan Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies. Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia No. 11.

Higham, Charles, and Rachanie Thorasat (1994) Khok Phanom Di. Harcourt Brace College Publishers (Case Studies in Archaeology series)

Kathirithamby-Wells, J., and John Villiers, eds. (1990) The Southeast Asian Port and Polity. Singapore University Press.

* Lieberman, Victor (1995) An Age of Commerce in Southeast Asia? Problems of Regional Coherence ‹ A Review article. Journal of Asian Studies 54,, 3: 796-815

Lysa, Hong (1984) Thailand in the Nineteenth Century. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.

Marr, David, and A. C. Milner, eds. (1986) Southeast Asia in the 9th to 14th Centuries. Singapore: Institure of Southeast Asian Studies.

Osborne, Milton (1985) Southeast Asia: an Illustrated Introductory History. London, Boston, Sydney: George Allen and Unwin

*Perspectives on Southeast Asian Studies (1995)Journal of SoutheasyAsian Studies (special Issue) 26, 1)

Reid, Anthony (1988) Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce, 1450-1680. Yale University Press

Reid, Anthony, and David Marr, eds. (1979) Perceptions of the Past in Southeast Asia.Singapore: Heinmann Educational Books (Asia) Reid, Anthony, ed. (1993) Southeast Asia in the Early Modern Era. Cornell University Press.

Reynolds, Craig (1995) A New Look at Old Southeast Asia. Journal of Asian Studies 54, 2: 419-446.

Tarling, Nicholas, ed. (1992) The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia, Volume I. Cambridge University Press.

Ulack, Richard, and Gyula Pauer (1989) Atlas of Southeast Asia. Macmillan

Wolters, O. W. (1982) History, Culture, and Region in Southeast Asian Perspectives. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.

Witek, John W. (1994) The Seventeenth Century European Advance into Asia ‹ review article on Lach, Donald, and Edwin J. Van Kley (1993) Asia in the making of Europe,Volume 3: A Centuryof Advance. University of Chicago Press.

Recommended Reserve

Aung-Thwin, Michael (1985) Pagan: The Origins of Modern Burma. University of Hawaii Press.

Backus, Charles (1981) The Nan-Chao Kindgom. Cambridge University Press.

Consentino, Renato (1957) A History of the Philippines. Manila: Monthly Review Press.

Glover, Ian C, (1989) Early Trade between India and South-East Asia: a Link in the Development of a World TRading System. Hull: University of Hull, Center of South-East Asian Studies, Occasional Paper no. 16.

Groslier, Bernard (1957) Angkor. Singapore: Donald Moore. Lester, Robert (1973) Theravada Buddhism in Southeast Asia. University of Michigan Press.

Lieberman, Victor R. (1984) Burmese Administrative Cycles. Priceton University Press.

Rawson, Philip (1967) The Art of Southeast Asia. New York: Praeger Rickleffs, M. C. (1985) A History of Modern Indonesia. Indiana University Press.

Wheatley, Paul (1983) Nagara and Commandery. University of Chicago, Department of Geography Research Paper 207-208.

Wyatt, David K. (1985) Thailand: a Short History. Yale University Press.

To Be Made Available in The Department of Anthropology Reading Room

Jonsson, Hjorleifur (MS 1993) Further Notes on Social Space Towards a Regional, Diachronic Sense of Uplanders.

Lehman, F. K. ŒŒShan¹ Encyclopedia of Asian History.

Lehman, F. K. (1984) Remarks on Freedom and Bondage in Traditional Burma and Thailand. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 15,2: 233-244.

Lehman, F. K. (1991) Empiricist Method and Intensional Analysis in Burmese Historiography. Crossroads 6, 2: 77-120.

O¹Connor, Richard (MS 1993) Agricultural Change and Political Succession in Mainland Southeast Asia.

Stewart-Fox, Martin (1993) On the Writing of Lao History: Continuities and Discontinuities. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 24, 1: 106-121.

Wilson, Constance M. (1991) Nineteenth Century Thai Social Structure and its implications for State Formation. The Journal of Sophia Asiam Studies (Tokyo) 9,1: 1- 18.