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History 310 (Anthropology 375)
Autumn 2012
Tuesdays 7:10-11:00
Robert André LaFleur
Office
Hours
MI 111 Tuesday
4:00-5:30
363-2005 Thursday
4:00-5:30
lafleur@beloit.edu …or by appointment
Required Books
Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities.
Appadurai, Arjun. Modernity at Large.
Bhabha, Homi. The Location of Culture.
Brown, Melissa. Is Taiwan Chinese?
Espiritu, Yen Le. Asian American Panethnicity.
Gladney, Dru. Dislocating China.
Lie, John. Multi-Ethnic Japan.
Mullaney, Thomas. Coming to Terms with the Nation.
Said, Edward. Orientalism.
Shin, Gi-wook. Ethnic Nationalism in Korea.
Spence, Jonathan. Emperor of China.
Walker, Brett. The Conquest of Ainu Lands.
Hacker, Diana. A Pocket Style Manual (required in all
history courses)
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This seminar
will examine the idea of “ethnicity” in an Asian (and particularly East Asian)
context. East Asia, in particular, has been dominated, until recently, by
autocratic regimes that took widely varying approaches to otherness or difference.
Our task will be to explore how that dynamic has taken shape in China, Japan,
Korea, and other closely connected areas of Asia in the last millennium (or
three). Students will focus on a cluster of ethic groups in a part of East
Asia, and spread their interests north, south, east, and west, as archival duty
calls. Above all, we will not be starting from the comfortable “fifty-six
ethnic groups” argument of the People’s Republic of China or other arguments in
Japan, Taiwan (the Republic of China), Korea, or elsewhere. We will study the
ethnic dynamics in (East) Asia during the last three thousand years, and try to
understand how it affects the twenty-first century world.
Evaluation
Weekly Quizzes/Logs (15) 15%
Weekly Reports 35%
Seminar Paper 50%
Class attendance and participation is expected. More than one absence will significantly
affect your grade. Late assignments will
be penalized.
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History 310 &
Anthropology 375
Asian Ethnicities
Autumn 2012
Week
I (August 28)
Jonathan Spence, Emperor of China
Acknowledgments
K’ang-hsi’s Reign
In Motion
Ruling
Thinking
Growing Old
Sons
Valedictory
Appendix A. Seventeen Letters to Ku Wen-hsing,
Chief Eunuch, Spring 1697
Appendix B. The “Final” Valedictory Edict
Week
II (September 4)
Anderson, Imagined
Communities
Introduction
Cultural Roots
The Origins of National
Consciousness
Creole Pioneers
Old Languages, New Models
Official Nationalism and
Imperialism
The Last Wave
Patriotism and Racism
The Angel of History
Census, Map, Museum
Memory and Forgetting
Travel and Traffic: On the
Geo-biography of Imagined Communities
Week
III (September 11)
Said, Orientalism
Introduction
The Scope of Orientalism
Knowing the Oriental
Imaginative Geography and Its Representations
Projects
Crisis
Orientalist Structures and
Restructures
Redrawn Frontiers, Redefined Issues, Secularized Religion
Silvestre de Sacy and Ernest Renan: Rational Anthropology and...
Oriental Residence and Scholarship: The Requirements of
Lexicography...
Pilgrims and Pilgrimages, British and French
Orientalism Now
Latent and Manifest Orientalism
Style, Expertisse, Vision: Orientalism’s Worldliness
Modern Anglo-French Orientalism in Fullest Flower
The Latest Phase
Afterword
Week
IV (September 18)
Bhabha, The
Location of Culture
Introduction: Locations of
Culture
The Commitment to Theory
Interrogating Identity:
Frantz Fanon and the Postcolonial Perogative
The Other Question:
Stereotype, Discrimination, and the Discourse of Colonialism
Of Mimicry and Man: The
Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse
Sly Civility
Signs Taken for Wonders:
Questions of Ambivalence and Authority...
DissemiNation: Time,
Narrative, and the Margins of the Modern Nation
The Postcolonial and the
Postmodern: The Question of Agency
By Bread Alone: Signs of
Violence in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
How Newness Enters the
World: Postmodern Space, Postcolonial Times…
Trials of Cultural Translation
Conclusion: ‘Race’, Time
and the Revision of Modernity
Week
V (September 25)
Appadurai, Modernity at Large
Here and Now
Part I Global Flows
Disjuncture and Difference
in the Global Cultural Economy
Global Ethnoscapes: Notes
and Queries for a Transnational Anthropology
Consumption, Duration, and
History
Part II Modern Colonies
Playing with Modernity:
The Decolonization of Indian Cricket
Number in the Colonial
Imagination
Part III Postnational Locations
Life after Primordialism
Patriotism and Its Futures
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Week
VI (October 2)
Mullaney, Coming
to Terms with the Nation
Introduction
Identity Crisis in
Postimperial China
Ethnicity as Language
Plausible Communities
The Consent of the
Categorized
Counting to Fifty-Six
Conclusion: A History of
the Future
Week
VII (October 9)
Gladney, Dislocating
China
Introduction: Locating and
Dislocating Culture in Contemporary China
Part I
RECOGNITIONS
Cultural Nationalisms in
Contemporary China
Mapping the Chinese Nation
Part II
REPRESENTATIONS
Making, Marking, and
Marketing Identity
Film and Forecasting the
Nation
Part III
FOLKLORIZATIONS
Enmeshed Civilizations
Localization and Transnational
Pilgrimages
Part IV
ETHNICIZATIONS
Dialogic Identities
Relational Alterities
Part V
INDIGENIZATIONS
Ethnogenesis or
Ethnogenocide?
Cyber-Separatism
Part VI
SOCIALIZATIONS
Educating China’s Others
Subaltern Perspectives on
Prosperity
Part VII
POLITICIZATIONS
Gulf Wars and Displaced
Persons
Bodily Positions, Social
Dispositions
Conclusions
Week
VIII—Autumn Break
Week
IX (October 23)
Lie, Multiethnic
Japan
Introduction
The Second Opening of
Japan
The Contemporary Discourse
of Japaneseness
Pop Multiethnicity
Modern Japan, Multiethnic
Japan
Geneaologies of Japanese
Identity and Monoethnic Ideology
Classify and Signify
Conclusion
Summary Review of your Review Essay Project Due by
5:00
p.m. on Monday, October 29
Week
X (October 30)
Shin, Ethnic
Nationalism in Kore
PART I ORIGINS
AND DEVELOPMENT
Pan-Asianism and
Nationalism
Colonial Racism and Nationalism
International Socialism
and Nationalism
North Korea and “Socialism
of Our Style”
Ilmin Chuui and
“Modernization of the Fatherland”
PART II
CONTENTIOUS POLITICS
Universalism and
Particularism in Nation Building
Tradition, Modernity, and
Nation
Division and Politics of
National Representation
Nation, History, and
Politics
PART III CURRENT
MANIFESTATIONS
Ethnic Identity and
National Unification
Between Nationalism and
Globalization
Conclusion: Genealogy,
Legacy, and Future
Week
XI (November 6)
Brown, Is Taiwan
Chinese?
What’s in a Name? Culture,
Identity, and the “Taiwan Problem”
Where Did the Aborigines
Go? Reinstating Plains Aborigines in Taiwan’s History
“We Savages Didn’t Bind
Feet”: Culture, Colonial Intervention, and...
“Having a Wife is Better
than Having a God”:Ancestry, Governmental…
“They Came With Their
Hands Tied Behind Their Backs”: Forced Migration...
Theory and the Politics of
Reunification: Understanding Past Choices and Future Options
Week
XII (November 13)
Walker, The
Conquest of Ainu Lands
The Consolidation of the
Early-Modern Japanese State in the North
Shakushain’s War
The Ecology of Ainu
Autonomy and Dependence
Symbolism and Environment
in Trade
The Sakhalin Trade:
Diplomatic and Ecological Balance
The Kuril Trade: Russia
and the Question of Boundaries
Epidemic Disease,
Medicine, and the Shifting Ecology of Ezo
The Role of Ceremony in
Conquest
Week
XIII (November 20)
Espiritu, Asian
American Panethnicity
Ethnicity and Panethnicity
Coming Together: The Asian
American Movement
Electoral Politics
The Politics of Social
Service Funding
Census Classification: The
Politics of Ethnic Enumeration
Reactive Solidarity:
Anti-Asian Violence
Pan-Asian American
Ethnicity: Retrospect and Prospect
3,000-word “Lead” for Review Articles Due by 5:00 p.m.
on
Sunday, November 27
Week
XIV (November 27)
TBA (Handout)
Week
XV (December 4)
TBA (Handout)
All
late work (other than final essay) due by Friday, December 7 at
10:00 p.m.
Final
Projects Due on Tuesday, December 18 by 5:00 p.m.
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