At present, the following contents are being prepared. The specific content and sequence of the classes will be adjusted based on the responses to the reaction paper at the end of the first session.
Introduction: anthropology, sociology, and Asian Societies
Japan (3 lectures)
1. Agricultural sociology, folklore studies, ethnology, and colonial anthropology in Japan before 1945
2. Impacts of early Anglophone literature (John Embree, Ruth Benedict, etc.) and early post-WWII developments
3. Various disjunctures
China (3 lectures)
1. Eearly works of Fei Xiaotong (Fei Hsiao-Tung): focusing on Peasant Life in China (1939), 郷土中国(1947or 48, [From the Soil, 1992])
2. Early western theorizations: Skinner on marketing and social structure and Freedman on kinship theory and 宗族 zongzu
3. Contemporary issues
India (3 lectures)
1. Mysore Srinivas and functional understandings of “caste society”
2. Structural Turn?: Louis Dumont, McKim Marriott and beyond
3. Historicization of “caste” and beyond
Southeast Asia (1 lecture)
・Civilizations, modernization, marginal people, and resistance(Edmund Leach, Clifford Geertz, Stanley Tambiah, James Scott)
General Discussion