Course Outline

TOPIC I. South-East Asia as an Area of Anthropological Study: Ethnicity and Interdependence. II. Language, Languages and Language Relationships. III. Prehistory, Biological and Archaeological. IV. Ethnographic and Ethnological Survey, by Regions. V. Cultural History: The emergence of South-East Asia as a cultural system. India, China, and the Indian-Ocean/China Sea trade. The Rise of the Lowland Civilisations. The Hindu-Buddhist Polities. The Development and Variation of Ethnic Symbiosis. VI. The Social, Religious and Symbolic Structure of the Lowland Civilisations: Politics, Cosmology, Status, and Interpersonal Relations. Loose Structure Theory: A Critique Cultural Paradox and Social Demography. VII. Some Tribal Social Systems: Reflections of Symbiosis. Analysis of Selected Ethnographies. Exchange,Merit,Status and Cosmology:Tribal-Lowland Comparison. VIII. Mainland South-East Asia in the Contemporary World: Continuity and Change. I shall by no means spend equal time on each of these topics. Explanation of the Course: This is mainly a lecture course, with classroom discussion as necessary. There will be a one-hour mid-semester examination, as well as a three- hour final examination. The examinations will consist of both essay writing and shorter questions (mainly ethnographic, ethnological geographic and historical identifications). Instead of a term paper, each student will be obliged to read one major ethnographic monograph (other than works by F. K. Lehman or Sir Edmund Leach) and write a short critique of it. The critique should be of two kinds: plausibilty and clarity as to fact; an evaluation of the analysis in the monograph from the standpoint of anthropological theory and the lectures in class. the mid-term examination is worth about 20% of the class grade the two reports 10%, each, and the final examination is worth the remaining 60% of the final course grade.THERE WILL BE NO ŒEx¹ GRADES GIVEN; ALL PAPERS WILL BE HANDED IN BY THE TIME OF THE FINAL EXAMINATION. Required Text: 1. Charles F. Keyes. The Golden Peninsula. (1) is a general backround anthropology of the region. You should read it, but not expect the lectures to be aligned with it in any way. (2) is simply the major ethnography the instructor is most familiar with (having written it). From time to time, also, I shall deposit various papers (often my own writing on the topics under discussion in the class) in the departmental Reading Room, and you are free to make copies of any of them. For the rest, you must rely upon the attached Reference List. Many, but far from all of these are on Reserve for this class, in the Education & Social Science Library in the Main Library. This is NOT a Œreading list¹ for the class. It is a reference list from which you can chose materials for your written reports, and with which you can follow up references I make in the course of my lectures. I suggest you browse these materials fairly regularly during the semester, because you will need t give evidence of reading beyond texts and specific lecture references in your examination answers. ­­­­­­­­­ REFERENCE SUPPLEMENT (by topics) Note: Items checked (ˆ) will be found in the General Library, but papers, as against whole books will generally not be allowed to be put on the Reserve List. Whenever possible, that is, when I have just lectured on a relevant point, I shall try and put a work, listed but not on Reserve, in the Education Library, in the Departmental Reading Room under this course number, where you may read the work, but from which you may borrow an item only for the hour or two it may take you to xerox any portion of it you want to copy out. Also, from time to time, in the course, of lectures, I may mention a work neither on Reserve nor on the following list. Once again, I shall endeavour to place such a work in the Departmental Reading Room at the point when I have referred to it. If a work referred to is in neither place, I shall be happy to lend it to an interested student upon request. the significance of the preposed asterisks should be obvious: you should above all look at such works. Everyone should read E. R. Leach¹s POLITICAL SYSTEMS OF HIGHLAND BURMA. 0. General Works, and Bibliographies ˆBechert, Heinz, and Richard Gombrich, eds. (1984) The World of Buddhism. New York: Facts on File. Herbert, Patricia, compiler (1992) Burma. Oxford: CLIO (World Bibliographic Series #132) Hirschman, Charles (1994) Population and Society in Twentieth-Century Southeast Asia. JSEAS 25,2:381-416. ˆHobart, Mark, and Robert Taylor, eds. (1986) Context, meaning and power in Southeast Asia. Cornell University Southeast Asia Program. ˆIzikowitz, K./ G., and P. Sørensen, eds. (1982) the house in East and Southeast Asia. London: Curzon Press, for Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies, Monograph 30. Krowolski, Nelly, and Nguyen Tung, eds. (1984) ASEMI Catalogue analytique bilingue (Bilingual analytical catalogue) Paris:ASEMI (Asie du Sud-Est et Monde Insulindien) Supplément. ˆMathews, Bruce, and Judith Nagata, eds. (1986) Religion, values and devlopment in Southeast Asia. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. ˆMilner, G.B., ed. (1978) Natural Symbols in Southeast Asia. London: SOAS. ˆO¹Connor, Richard A. (1983) A theory of Indigenous Southeast Asian urbanism. Singapore: Institute ofSoutheast Asian Studies, Research noted and discussions paper 38. ˆSarkisyanz, Manuel (1979) Die Kulturen Kontinental-Südostasiens. Wiesbaden: Athenaion Schober, Juliane (1995) The Therava¯ da Engagement with Modernity:Whither the Social pradigm of the Galactic Polity? Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 22,6: 307- 325. Steinberg, David J., et al., (latest edition, 1990) In Search of Southeast Asia. New York: Praeger. ˆStott, P. A., ed. (1978) Nature and Man in South East Asia. London: SOAS. ˆVan Esterik, Penelope, ed. (1982) Women in Southeast Asia. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Occasaional paper 9. I. Prehistory and Proto-history (and Human Genetics) Bayard, Donn (1980) The roots of Indo-Chinese civilization: Recent developments in the prehistory of Southeast Asia. Pacific Affairs 53,i: 103-105; 107-108. ˆCharles Higham (1989) The Archaeology of Mainland Southeast Asiia. Cambridge University Press. Mourant, A. E., et al. , eds (1976) The distribution of human blood groups and other polymorphisms (Ch. 19, South-East Asia). OUP Schanfield, M. S., and H. Gerschowitz (1973) Nonrandom distribution of Gm haplolytes in East Asia. Am. Jl. of Human Genetics 25: 567-574. Ray, Himanshu Prabha (1989) Early maritime contacts betweeen Sout and Southeast Asia. JSEAS XX,1: 42-54. ˆSmith, R.B., and W. Watson, eds. (1979) Early South East Asia. New York. Welch, D. J., and Judith R. McNeill (1989) Archaeological investigations of Pattani history. JSEAS XX,1:27-41. II. History ** Aung-Thwin, Michael (1990) Irrigation in the Heartland of Burma. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Center for Southeast Asian Studies, occassional papers series. Chamberlain, James R., ed. (1992) The Ramkamhaeng Controversy: Collected Papers. Bangkok: The Siam Society/Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Center for South & Southeast Asian Studies. **Christie, Jan Wisseman (1995) State Formation in Early Maritime Southeast Asia: A Consideration of the Theories and the Data. Bijdragen tot de Taal,-, Land- en Volkenkund 151, 2: 235-288. ˆ* René Hagesteijn (1990) Circles of Kings: Political Dynamics in Early Continental Southeast Asia. Leiden: E.J. Brill (review by F.K. Lehman, American Anthropologist,93,2:474-475 - 1991) F. K. Lehman (1991) Empiricist Method and Intensional Analysis in Burmese Historiography. Crossroads 6,2. **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. Snooks, G.D., A.J.S. Reid, and J. J. Pincus, eds. (1992) Exploring Southeast Asia¹s Economic Past. Australian Economic HIstory Review 31,1. **ˆTarling, Nicholas, ed. (1991) The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia, Volume I. CUP ˆWilson, Constance, and Lucien M. Hanks (1985) The Burma-Thailand Frontier over Sixteen Decades: Three Descriptive Documents. Ohio University Monographs on International Studies, Southeast Asia series, 70. ˆ* Wolters, Oliver W. (1982) History, Culture and Region in Southeast Asian Perspectives. Singapore; Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. The following is a partial reference list from the bibliography for Anthropology 386/History 172 Aung Thwin, Michael l985, Pagan: The Origins of Modern Burma. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. [This is the best book on the early history of Burma and the internal workings of the kingdom.] ˆBagshawe, L. E. (tr., 1992 MS) Myanma Min Okchok Pon Sadan [History of Burmese Royal Administration, 5 volumes, by U Tin. Rangoon, 1935 nd subsequent editions] - on disk with limited availability. Chandler, David 1983, A History of Cambodia. Boudler: Westview Press. *Gesick, Lorraine. (ed.),1983, Centers, Symbols, and Hierarchy: Essays on the Classical States of Southeast Asia. New Haven: Yale University Southeast Asia Studies, Monograph Series No. 26 Groslier, Bernard, et al. l957 Angkor. Singapore: Donald Moore. [A useful book which focuses upon the monumental art and architecture of the ancient Khmer capital at the height of the classical period.] ˆ*Hall, K.R. and J. Whitmore, eds.,1976, Explorations in Early Southeast Asian History:The Origins of Southeast Asian Statecraft. Ann Arbor: Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia, No. 11 ˆHong Lysa1984, Thailand in the Nineteenth Century. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. Kathirithamby-Wells, J, and John Villiers, eds.,1990, The Southeast ˆAsian port and polity: rise and demise. Singapore University Press. Kheng, Cheah Boon (1994) Feudalism in re-Colonia Malaya: the Past as a Colonia Discourse. JSEAS 25,2:243-269. Koenig, William J., 1990. The Burmese Polity, 1752-1819:politics, administration and social organization in the early Konbaung period. University of Michign Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies, Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia, 34. ˆLieberman, Victor R., l984, Burmese Administrative Cycles. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. [Possibly the finest work on the political economy of a specific period in the history of any of the kingdoms of Southeast Asia; certainly the best thing on the political economy of pre-colonial Burma.] Lieberman,V.,1987, Reinterpreting Burmese History,* Comparative Studies in Society and History 29 (1): 162-194. **Lieberman, Victor R.,1991, MS Local Integration and Eurasian Analogies: Structuring Southeast Asian History, c. 1350 - 1830. Pp.124 Manich, M. L. (1967) History of Laos. Bangkok *Marr, D.G. and A.C. Milner (eds.),1986, Southeast Asia in the 9th to l4th Centuries. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies and Canberra: Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University ˆOwen, Norman G., ed.,1987, Death and Disease in Southeast Asia. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. ˆRawson, Philip,l967, The Art of Southeast Asia. New York: Praeger. [Standard survey of the classical arts of the region, but stronger on the subject of monuments and sculpture than on other arts.] ˆ*Reid, A. and L. Castles (eds.),1975, Pre-Colonial State Systems in Southeast Asia. Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Monograph No. 6 ˆReid, Anthony,1983, Slavery, Bondage and Dependency in Southeast Asia. New York. Reid, Anthony,1988, Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce (I) 1450- 1680. Yale University Press. Reid, Anthony, ed.,1991-92, Southeast Asia in the Early Modern Era. Cornell University Press. Reid, Anthony, 1993. Southeast ASsia n the Early Modern Era, 1450-1680, II Expansion and Crisis. Yale University Press. Taylor, Keith W.,1983, The Birth of Vietnam. University of California Press. ˆTaylor, K. W., J. W. Christie, H. Kulke, and J.-Y. Manguin (1991) Early State Formation. Indonesia [Cornell] 52, october: 1-54 Terwiel, B. J. (1983) A History of Modern Thailand, 1767-1942. St. Lucia: University of Queensland press. Toe Hla,1987, Money-Lending and Contractual Thet-kayits. Ph.D. thesis, Northern Illinois University. ˆWheatley, Paul, l983, Nagara and Commandery. Chicago, IL.: University of Chicago, Dept. of Geography Research Paper 207-208. [An encyclopaedic, comprehensive work on the earliest history and of the rise of civilization in the whole region. Its notes and bibliography are virtually exhaustive of the entire literature to its date and of all analytical issues.] Wyatt, David K., l985, Thailand: A Short History. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. [A most reliable and up-to-date, though somewhat elementary, overview of Thailand's history.] III. General and Comparative Ethnology and Ethnography Donald E. Brown and others (1988) The Penis Inserts of Southeast Asia. University of California Center for South & Southeast Asia Studies (Berkeley), Occasional Paper # 4 ˆ**CONTRIBUTIONS TO SOUTHEAST ASIAN ETHNOGRAPHY: I (1982)Studies of Ethnic Minority Peoples: Lewis, Paul, Basic Themes in Akha Culture Walker, A. R. , Lahu nyi Village Officials and their Ordination Ceremonies Guha, K., The Meithei of Manipur and their Rajput Affiliations 5. Studies of Religions and World Views: Chob Kacha-Ananda, The Religious Life of the Yao People of Northern Thailand Walker, A. R., Transformation of Buddhism in the Religious Ideas and Practices of a Non-Buddhist Hill People: The Lahu Nyi of the Northern Thail Uplands. Rahman, Md. Habibur, Religious Sysncretism maong the Buddhisrt Chakma of Southeastern Bangladesh. 7. Further Studies of Religion and World Views: Dournes, Jacques, The Spirit of Laws: A First Presentation of Data on the ³Customary Laws¹ of the Indochinese Jörai People. Dessaint, A. Y., Lisu World View. Bender, Mark, Hxak Hmub: An Introduction to an Antiphonal Myth Cycle of the Miao in Southeast Guizhou. Khaleque, Kibriaul, The Garo of Bangladesh: Religion, Rirutal and World View. 10. Rice in Southeast Asian Myth and Ritual: Terwiel, B. J., Rice Legends in Mainland Southeast Asia. Liu Huihao, The Traditional Rice Culture of the Lahu (Including Kucong) of Southwest China. Yang Yuxiang, Traditional Rituals of Rice Cultivation among Selected Ethnic Minority Peoples of Yunnan Province, Southwest China. Cultural Survival (1987) Southeast Asian tribal groups and ethnic minorities. Cambridge, MA: Cultural Survival report 22. ˆ*Nancy J. Eberhardt, ed. (1988) Gender, Power & the Construction of the Moral order: Studies from the Thai Periphery. University of Wisconsin, Madison: Center for Southeast Asian Studies, monograph #4 ˆEmbree, John F., and William L. Thomas, Jr. (1950) Ethnic Groups of Northern Southeast Asia. Yale University Southeast Asia Program (has best ethno-linguistic map of the India-Bangladesh parts of Southeast Asia) *Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf (1983) Himalayan Adventure -Early Travels in North-East India. New Delhi. Heinz, Ruth-Inge (1982) Tham Khwan, How to contain the essence of Life: A socio-psychological comparisons of Thai custom. Singapore University Press. ˆK. G. Izikowitz and P. Sørenson, eds. (1982) The House in East & Southeast Asia. London: Curzon Press (Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies, Monograph #30) Hjorleifur R. Jonsson (1991 MS) Forest Products & Peoples: Upland Groups in and out of Thai Politics. *Kammerer, Cornelia A., and Nicola B. Tannenbaum, eds (in press and MSS) Merit & Blessing in the Religions of Mainland Southeast Asia. Yale Southeast Asia Program Monograph Series: e.g., Lehman, F. K. Can God Be Coerced? Structural Correlates of Merit and Blessing in some Southeast Asian Religions. ˆKeyes, Charles F. (1987) Thailand: Buddhist Kingdom as Modern Nation-State. Boulder: Westeview. ˆKeyes, Charles F., and E. V. Daniel, eds. (1983) Karma: an anthropological enquiry. University of California Press. ˆ**Kurita, Yasuyuki, ed. (?1989) Ethnological Data of the Tribes of North-East India. Bulletin of the National Museum of Ethnology (Osaka) No. 9 (Special Issue) ‹ text in Japanese, but all maps and tables use romanisation.) Matras-Troubetzkoy, Jacqueline, and Ch. Taillard, eds. Cheminements: écrits offerts à Georges Condominas. ASEMIXI, 1-4. ˆReynolds, Frank, and Mani Reynolds, eds. and trs. (1982) The Three Worlds according to King Ruang. Berekeley: Asian Humanities Press. ˆSusan D. Russell, ed. (1989) Ritual, Power, & Economy: Upland-Lowland Contrasts in Mainland Southeast Asia. Northern Illinois University (DeKalb), Center for Southeast Asian Studies, monograph series, Occasional Papers#14. Walker, Anthony R. (1995) From the Mountains and the Interiors: A Quarter of a Century of Research among Fourth World Peoples in Southeast Asia (With Special Reference to Northern Thailand and Peninsular Malaysia). Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 26, 2: 326-365. ˆ*Robert Wessing (1986) The Soul of Ambiguity: the Tiger in Southeast Asia. Northern Illinois University (DeKalb), Center for Southeast Asian Studies, monograph series, Special Report #24 John Whitehead (1989) Far Frontiers: People & Events in Northeastern India, 1857-1957. London: BACSA (British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia). IV. Particular and Comparative Ethnographies. ˆAnonymous (1978) Hill Tracts between Assam & Burma: Selection of Papers. Delhi: Vikas Publishing Co. **Borooah, Romy (1988) The Wancho of Northeast India in the 1970¹s and 1980¹s. Ph.D. thesis, UIUC ˆClaus-D. Brauns and Lorenz G. Löffler ; tr. D. Wagner-Glenn (1990) Mru: Hill People of a Frontier Area of Bangladesh. Basel/Boston: Birkhaüser Verlag. S. K. Chattopadhyaya (1988) The Jaintias. New Delhi: Cosmo. ˆ*Chien Chiao and Nicholas Tapp, eds. (1989) Ethnicity & Ethnic Groups in China. Hong Kong: New Asia Academic Bulletin, Volume VIII. Cohen, Paul, and Gehan Wijeyewardene, eds. (1984) Spirit cults and the position of women in Northern Thailand. Mankind 14,4 (aspecial issue), Canberra. ˆ**Georges Condominas (1990) From Lawa to Mon, from Saa¹ to Thai: Historical and Anthropological Aspects of Southeast Asian Social Spaces. Canberra: Australian National University, Occasional paper of the Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific Studies and the Thai-Yunnan Project. [but see the scathing review in 1991, by Michael Vickery, in Thai-Yunnan Project Newsletter 31: 3-8. ˆCultural Survival Report # 22 (1987) Southeast Asian Tribal Groups and Ethnic Minorities. Cambridge, MA: Cultural Survival,Inc. ˆDessaint, Alain Y. (1980) Minorities of Southwest China (annotated bibliography and introducion) New Haven: HRAF. Du Shan-shan (1992 MSS) The marriage systems among the Lahu of Southwest China; Love suicide and antiphonal singing among the Lahu Na in Southwest China: an aesthetic axis in the construction of emotions and decisions (paper for the 1991 AAA meetings) UIUC. [for Lahu and other Chinese minorities in Chinese, see References in her 1995 NSF proposal] ˆFriedman, Jonathan (1979) System, structure, and contradiction: the evolution of ³Asiatic² social formations. Copenhagen: National Museum of Denmark. ˆ*Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf (1980) A Himalayan Tribe: from Cattle to Cash (Apa Tani). Berkeley: University of California Press. ˆ*Grunfeld, Frederic (1982) Wayfarers of the Thai Forest: The Akha. Amsterdam: Time-Life Books. **Harrell, Stevan, ed. (1994) Cultural Encounters on China¹s Ethnic Frontier. 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Thurgood, Graham, et al., eds., (1985) Linguistics of the Sino-Tibetan Area: The State of the Art. Canberra: ANU/ Pacific Linguistics C-87. Also, browse the following current journals devoted, or largely devoted to South- East Asia, not previously listed: 1. Crossroads (Northern Illinois University, Center for Southeast Asina Studies). Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (Singapore). SoJourn (Singapore). Mankind (Sydney, Australia). Journal of the Siam Society (Bangkok). BEFEO (Bulletin de l¹École Française d¹Extrême-Orient (Paris). ASEMI (Asie du du Sud-est et Monde Insulindien ‹ Paris) ‹ especially the most recent one on the coastal maritime peoples of the southern part of our region, the neighbourhood of the Isthmus of Kra ‹ 1991). see also, the Journal of Asian Studies and the BSOAS (Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London). On current work on linguistics, see the journals Mon-Khmer Studies (University of Hawaii Press) and Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area (LTBA) and F. K. Lehman¹s running bibliography of the subject on computer. For the India-Bangladesh border regions of Mainland Southeast Asia, see now volume 3 (South Asia) of the Encyclopedia of World Cultures: Boston: G. K. Hall (1992), for HRAF; for the rest of the region, volume 5 (East and Southeast Asia, 1993). Annually, see Southeast Asian Affairs, Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. se also Péninsule: Etudes Interdisciplinaires de l¹Asie du Sud Est Péninsulaires. Paris: L¹Association Péninsule. 30, rue Boissière. 75116, Paris. 2. Thai-Yunnan Project Newsletter . Canberra: Australian national University, Research School of Pacific Studies, Department of Anthropology. (I have the only local copies). For keeping up with bibliography generally there are two especial sources; the annual Bibliography of Asian Studies of the Association for Asian Studies (it is backed up, and has appeared only up to the issue for 1986 (in 1991); and the Accessions List (monthly) of the John M. Echols Collection of the Library of Cornell University, published by the Cornell Southeast Asia Program. Between the two, coverage of current work is virtually exhaustive. The best library for our subject is that at Cornell, in Ithaca, New York, and perhaps just as good is the Library of Congress in Washington, D. C.. At least somewhat comparable, and nearby, is the one at Northern Illinois University, DeKalb. Anthropology 386/Mainland Southeast Asia/Spring, 1996 Anth. 386, Mainland Southeast Asia, Spring, 1991