教學大綱 Syllabus

每周課程進度與作業要求 Course Schedule & Requirements

Introducing basic concepts (4 weeks)

1. Course Intro-
   1. Why we need new ideas about sovereignty- resources, water, and land
      1. In class writing- what is sovereignty? Why is it important?
2. Declaring sovereignty
   1. Anghie, Antony. 2012. “Western Discourses of Sovereignty.” In Sovereignty: Frontiers of Possibility, edited by Julie Evans, Ann Genovese, Alexander Reilly, and Patrick Wolfe, 19–36. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press.
   2. Bonilla, Yarimar. 2017. “Unsettling Sovereignty.” Cultural Anthropology 32 (3): 330–39. https://doi.org/10.14506/ca32.3.02.
   3. Anderson, Kay. 2020. Modern Ontologies of the more-than-animal’ Human: Provincializing humanism for the present day. In, Interrogating Human Origins: Decolonisation and the Deep Human Past. Martin Porr and Jacqueline M. Mathews ed. Oxon: Routledge. [pp. 56-71]
3. Sovereign calls the exception
   1. Schmitt, C. (1985). Political Theology: four chapters on the concept of sovereignty. University of Chicago Press. [pp. 5-15; 36-52; Definition of Sovereignty; Political Theology]
   2. Agamben, G. (1998). Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life. Stanford University Press. [pp 1-67- Introduction and Part 1]
4. Which Sovereign; Which exception?
   1. Haraway, Donna J. 2016. Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Durham and London: Duke University Press.[pp.1-8; 30-57;99-103; Introduction; Tentacular Thinking; Making Kin]
   2. Povinelli, E. A. (2016). Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism. Duke University Press. [pp. 30-56; 92-118; Can Rocks Die? Life and Death inside the Carbon Imaginary; The Normativity of Creeks]

The God King and Son of Heaven (4 weeks)

1. Early Kings- Foundations of Superstition
   1. Frazer, J. G. (1906). The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings (Part 1). In The Golden Bough: A study in magic and religion (p. 426). MacMillan and Company. [pp. 1-6; 56-97; The African Grove; Tree-worship]
   2. Graeber, D., &Sahlins, M. (2017). On Kings. Hau Books. [pp. 1-23; 139-222; Introduction; The Atemporal Dimensions of History: In the old Kongo kingdom, for example]
2. China – Yellow Husbandman to the Son of Heaven
   1. Qian, S. (2007). The First Emperor. Oxford University Press. [ix-xxxiv; 3-9; Preface; The Birth of the First Emperor]
   2. Lewis, M. E. (2007). The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. [pp. 1-21;178-205; Geography of Empire; Religion].
   3. Yongqian, Su, and Kathryn Henderson. 2017. “An Exploration of the Queen Mother of the West from the Perspective of Comparative Mythology.” Journal of Chinese Humanities 3 (1): 72–90. https://doi.org/10.1163/23521341-12340044.
      1. additional readings: Rippa, Alessandro. "Re-Writing Mythology in Xinjiang: The Case of the Queen Mother of the West, King Mu and the Kunlun." The China Journal 71 (2014): 43-64.
      2. Rothschild, Norman Harry. "Wu Zhao and the Queen Mother of the West." Journal of Daoist Studies 3, no. 3 (2009): 29-56.
3. Mainland Southeast Asia- Devaraja to Chakravartan
   4. Heine-Geldern, R. (1942). Conceptions of the State and Kingship in Southeast Asia. The Far Eastern Quarterly, 2(1), 15–30.
   5. Day, Tony. 2002. Fluid Iron: State Formation in Southeast Asia. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press. [pp. 90-165; Chapt 3: Cosmologies, Truth Regimes, and Invulnerability]
   6. Chakrabongse, HRH Prince Chula. 2019. Lords of Life: A History of the Kings of Thailand. Bangkok: River Books. [pp. 13-58; Before]
   7. Thompson, A. (2016). Engendering the Buddhist State: Territory, Sovereignty and Sexual Difference in the Inventions of Angkor. London: Routledge. [pp. xxxx]
4. Island Southeast – Kings and Power in Bali
   8. Wiener, Margaret J. 1995. Visible and Invisible Realms: Power, Magic, and Colonial Conquest in Bali. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. [pp. 3-134; Part One: Power and Knowledge]
      1. Additional Readings: Geertz, C. (1980). Negara: The Theatre State in Nineteenth-Century Bali. Princeton University Press.

Mid-Term Exam-

        Short answer essays dealing with the framing of the course and main concepts

Before (or without) the Kings: Egalitarian Myths, Mountains, and Founders

1. General concepts (inside and outside Asia)
   1. Descola, P. (2013). Beyond nature and culture. University of Chicago Press.
   2. (Alternate w/ Descola) Holbraad, Martin, and Morten Axel Pedersen. 2017. The Ontological Turn: An Anthropological Exposition. Edited by Martin Holbraad and Morten Axel Pedersen. The Ontological Turn: An Anthropological Exposition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316218907.
   3. Robertson Smith, W. (1995). Lectures on the Religion of the Semites. Second and Third Series. In J. Day (Ed.), Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series. Sheffield Academic Press.
   4. Mus, P. (1933). [1975] India Seen from the East: Indian and indigenous cults in Champa. Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, Monash University.
   5. Gibson, T. (2011). Egalitarian Islands in a Predatory Sea. In Anarchic Solidarity: Autonomy, Equality, and Fellowship in Southeast Asia (pp. 270–293). Yale University Southeast Asia Studies Monograph 60.
   6. Durrenberger, E. P. (1996). The Power of Culture and the Culture of States. In E. P.Durrenberger (Ed.), State Power and Culture in Thailand. Yale University Southeast Asia Studies.
2. General Concepts: Founders, Zomia, and the land between the kings
   7. Scott, J. C. (2009). The Art of not being Governed: an anarchist history of upland Southeast Asia. Yale University Press.
   8. Wessing, R. (2017). The lord of the land relationship in southeast Asia. Spirits and Ships: Cultural Transfers in Early Monsoon Asia, 515–556.
   1. O’Connor, R. A. (2003). Founder’s Cults in Regional and Historical Perspective. In N. Tannenbaum &C. A. Kammerer (Eds.), Founders’ Cults in Southeast Asia: Ancestors, Polity, and Identity (pp. 269–311). Yale University Southeast Asia Studies.
3. Case Studies- Southeast Asia
   10. Howell, S. (2017). Rules without rulers? HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 7(2), 143–147. https://doi.org/10.14318/hau7.2.018
   11. Benjamin, G. (2011). Egalitarianism and Ranking in the Malay World. In T. Gibson & K. Sillander (Eds.), Anarchic Solidarity: Autonomy, Equality, and Fellowship in Southeast Asia (pp. 170–201). Council on Southeast Asia Studies at Yale University. https://cseas.yale.edu/anarchic-solidarity
   50. Allerton, C. (2013). Potent Landscapes: Place and Mobility in Eastern Indonesia. University of Hawaii Press. [pp. 97-126; Chapter 4: Earth, Stone, Water]
   1000. Elkholy, R. (2016). Being and Becoming: Embodiment and experience among the Orang Rimba of Sumatra. Berghahan Books. [pp. 167-196; Chapter 8: Shaminism and the Textures of the Universe]
4. Founders Cults and Stone Masters
   1. Esterik, P.Van. (1996). Nurturance and Reciprocity in Thai Studies. In State Power and Culture in Thailand. Yale University Southeast Asia Studies.
   2. Petit, P. (2020). History, Memory, and Territorial Cults in the Highlands of Laos: The past inside the present. Routledge.
   3. Baumann, B. (2020). Reconceptualizing the Cosmic Polity: The Tai mueang as a social ontology. In B. Baumann & D. Bultmann (Eds.), Social Ontology, Sociocultures, and Inequality in the Global South. Routledge.
   4. Zack, Michele. 2017. The Lisu: Far from the Ruler. Boulder: University Press of Colorado. [pp. 127-157; Chapt 11: Cosmic Views]

Sovereignty Reconsidered

1. Sovereignty and Contemporary Indigenous Movements
   1. Marisol de La Cadena & Orin Starn,. 2007. Indigenous Experience Today (Wenner-Gren International Symposium Series). New York: Berg Publishers. [Introduction and Chapter 7; pp. 57]
   2. Saranillio, Dean Itsuji. 2013. “Why Asian Settler Colonialism Matters: A Thought Piece on Critiques, Debates, and Indigenous Difference.” Settler Colonial Studies 3 (3–4): 280–94. https://doi.org/10.1080/2201473X.2013.810697.
   3. Sturm, C. (2017). Reflections on the Anthropology of Sovereignty and Settler Colonialism: Lessons from Native North America. Cultural Anthropology, 32(3), 340–348. https://doi.org/10.14506/ca32.3.03
2. Sovereignty and Territory
   1. Keenan, S. (2014). Subversive Property: Law and the production of spaces of belonging (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315794914 [Chapter 3: From positionality to spatiality]
   2. Charlotte Eubanks, and Pasang Yangjee Sherpa. “We Are (Are We?) All Indigenous Here, and Other Claims about Space, Place, and Belonging in Asia.” Verge: Studies in Global Asias 4, no. 2 (2018): vi–xiv. https://doi.org/10.5749/vergstudglobasia.4.2.00vi.
   3. Longkumer, Arkotong. 2020. “Indigenous Futures: The Practice of Sovereignty in Nagaland and Other Places.” Indigenous Religion(S), no. Im.Bureaucracies and Resources
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3. Bureaucracies and Resources
   1. Ginoza, Ayano. 2012. “Space of ‘ Militourism ’: Intimacies of U.S. and Japanese Empires and Indigenous Sovereignty in Okinawa.” International Journal of Okinawan Studies 3 (1): 7–23. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12000/34106 .
   2. Burman, A. (2020). Black hole indigeneity: the explosion and implosion of radical difference as resistance and power in Andean Bolivia. Journal of Political Power, 13(2), 179–200. https://doi.org/10.1080/2158379X.2020.1764802.
   3. Hansen, Thomas Blom. 2021. “Sovereignty in a Minor Key.” Public Culture 33 (1): 41–61. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-8742160.
4. Sovereignty in the Anthropocene
   1. Matthews, Daniel. 2021. “Reframing Sovereignty for the Anthropocene.” Transnational Legal Theory 12 (1): 44–77. https://doi.org/10.1080/20414005.2021.1929022.
   2. Wright, S., & Tofa, M. (2021). Weather Geographies: Talking about the Weather, Considering Diverse Sovereignties. Progress in Human Geography, January. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132520982949.
   3. Povinelli, Elizabeth A. 2021. Between Gaia and Ground: Four Axioms of Existence and the Ancestral Catastrophe of Late Liberalism. Durham: Duke University Press. [Introduction, Chapters 4 and 5].
   4. Tsing, Anna L., Jennifer Deger, Alder Keleman Saxena and Feifei Zhou. 2021.               Feral Atlas: The More-Than-Human Anthropocene. Stanford University Press. http://feralatlas.org/index.html

Final Exam week – no class- Final paper due 5pm last day of exam week.