每周課程進度與作業要求 Course Schedule & Requirements
Week 1 Introduction & Logistics 教師出國開研討會，課程預錄，學生需出席。
Week 2 Development Studies: Scope & Critical Perspectives
Reference Readings
- 王振寰、簡旭伸。2016。〈發展研究概述：理論發展與研究方法〉，《發展研究與當代台灣社會》。台北：巨流。
- Reinert, E. 2007. Introduction. How Rich Countries Got Rich and Why Poor Countries Stay Poor. London: Constable.
- Sen, Amartya, 1999. Introduction. Development as Freedom. NY: Alfred A. Knopf.
- Giddens, A. 1971. Introduction. Capitalism and Modern Social Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Lewis, D. 2005. Anthropology and development: the uneasy relationship. In A Handbook of Economic Anthropology. Carrier, James G. ed. Pp: 472-486. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.
- Escobar, A. (1997), Anthropology and development. International Social Science Journal, 49: 497-515.
Week 3 Theoretical Foundation 1: Durkheim, Religion & Structural Functionalism
Required Readings
- Durkheim, E 1915 The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life, Introduction.
- _____ The division of labour in society (L. Coser translation), chapters. 1 and 3.
- Fortes, M 1970 “Pietas and ancestor worship” in Time and social structure, London: Athlone Press.
- Giddens, A (ed) “Durkheim’s conception of sociological method” Chapter 6 of 1972 Emile Durkheim: Selected Writings.
Week 4 Theoretical Foundation 2: Bourdieu, Structure, Conflict, Practice & Change
Required Readings
- Bourdieu, Pierre. 1977. Outline of a Theory of Practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Ch 2: Structures and the Habitus; Ch 4: Structure, Habitus, Power: Basis for a Theory of Symbolic Power.
- Barth, Fredrik 1992 “Towards greater naturalism in conceptualizing societies” in A Kuper (ed.) Conceptualizing Society. London: Routledge.
- Gluckman, Max. 1963. Introduction. Order and rebellion in tribal Africa. New York: Free Press of Glencoe.
Week 5 Theoretical Foundation 3: Marxism & Social Class
Required Readings
- Bloch M. 1983. Chapter 1. Marxism and Anthropology: The History of a Relationship. London: Routledge.
- Donham, D 2006 “Epochal Structures and Historical Materialism” in H.L. Moore & T. Sanders (eds) 2006 Anthropology in theory: Issues in epistemology.
- Smith, R. T. (1984). Anthropology and the Concept of Social Class. Annual Review of Anthropology, 13, 467–494.
Week 6 Theoretical Foundation 4: Economy, Exchange, Gift & Trade
Required Readings
- Sherry, J. F. (1983). Gift Giving in Anthropological Perspective. Journal of Consumer Research, 10(2), 157–168.
- Keith Hart and Horacio Ortiz. 2014. The Anthropology of Money and Finance: Between Ethnography and World History. Annual Review of Anthropology, 43:1, 465-482.
- James, Deborah (2021) Life and debt: a view from the south. Economy and Society, 50 (1). 36 - 56.
Week 7 Theoretical Foundation 5: Weber, Social Status & Social Division
Required Readings
- Keyes, C. F. (2002). Weber and Anthropology. Annual Review of Anthropology, 31, 233–255.
- Barth, F. “Introduction” in F. Barth (ed.) 1969 Ethnic Groups and Boundaries: The Social Organisation of Culture Difference. London: Allen and Unwin. pp. 9-38.
- Parkin, F. 2002 Max Weber (Key Sociologists), esp. ch.4.
Week 8 Theoretical Foundation 6: Giddens, Capitalism, Modernity & Relations
Required Readings
- Giddens, A. 1971 Chapters 9 and 12 of Capitalism and Modern Social Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Giddens, A. 1991. Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age. Chapters 1, 7. Cambridge: Polity Press.
- Giddens, A. 1992. The Transformation of Intimacy: Sexuality, Love, and Eroticism in Modern Societies. Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4. Cambridge: Polity Press.
Week 9 Theoretical Foundation 7: Foucault & Experimentations in an Era of ‘Postconditions’
Required Readings
- Foucault, Michel. 2001 [1961]. Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason. Ch 9: The Birth of the Asylum; Conclusion. London: Routledge.
- Clifford, James. 1988. The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Chapter 12, 277-346: Identity in Mashpee.
- Mascia-Lees, Frances E. and Patricia Sharpe, and Colleen Ballerino Cohen. 1989. The Postmodernist Turn in Anthropology: Cautions from a Feminist Perspective. Signs 15(1): 7-33.
Week 10 Issue & Policy 1: Rethinking Globalisation and Cosmopolitanism
Required Readings
- Tsing, Anna. 2000. The Global Situation. Cultural Anthropology 15(3): 327-360.
- Candea, Matei. 2007. Arbitrary Locations: In Defence of the Bounded Field-Site. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 13(1): 167-184.
- Werbner, Pnina. (ed.) 2008. Anthropology and the New Cosmopolitanism: Rooted, Feminist and Vernacular Perspectives. New York: Berg. Ch. 1.
Week 11 Issue & Policy 2: State, Markets, and Institutions
Required Readings
- Reinert, E. 2007. How Rich Countries Got Rich and Why Poor Countries Stay Poor. London: Constable, Chapters 2, “The Evolution of Two Different Approaches”.
- Smith, A. 1776. An Inquiry into the Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Chapter 2, “Of the Principle Which Gives Occasion to the Division of Labour”.
- Polanyi, K. 2001 [1944]. The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Times (Boston: Beacon Press), Chap. 5, “Evolution of the Market Pattern” and Chap. 6, “The Self-Regulating Market and the Fictitious Commodities: Labor, Land and Money”.
Week 12 Issue & Policy 3: Colonial Legacies, Agricultural Change, and Industrialisation
Required Readings
- Mamdani, Mahmood. 2001. Beyond Settler and Native as Political Identities: Overcoming the Political Legacy of Colonialism. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 43:651-664.
- Knight, John, Li Shi and Lina Song. 2006. The Rural-Urban Divide and the Evolution of Political Economy in China. In Human Development in the Era of Globalization: Essays in Honor of Keith B. Griffin. Ed. James K. Boyce, Stephen Cullenberg, Prasanta K. Pattanaik and Robert Pollin. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
- Tam, M., & Evans, G. (1997). Introduction. Hong Kong: the anthropology of a Chinese metropolis. Richmond: Curzon.
Week 13 Issue & Policy 4: Social Exclusion & Social Innovation
- Room, G. J., 1999, “Social exclusion, solidarity and the challenge of globalization,” International Journal of Social Welfare 8 (3), 166–174.
- Goodstadt, L. F. (2014). Introduction. Poverty in the midst of affluence: how Hong Kong mismanaged its prosperity. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.
- Storper, M. 2005, “Society, community, and economic development,” Studies in Comparative International Development, 39:4, 30-57.
Week 14 Issue & Policy 5: Sustainable Development & Urban Bias
Required Readings
- Bezemer, D., & Headey, D. 2008. Agriculture, Development and Urban Bias. World Development 36, 8: 1342-1364.
- Homer, Dixon. 1999. Environment, scarcity and violence. Princeton University Press. Chapter 3: Two Centuries of Debate. Pp.28-44.
- Beck, U. 1992. Introduction. Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity. London: Sage.
- 何浩慈，2023。〈香港以糧為本「自然」識覺：與Tim Ingold對話都市人類學〉，《臺灣人類學刊》Vol.21, No.1, pp.131-166。
Week 15 Issue & Policy 6: Regional Development, Civil Society, and Welfare State
Required Readings
- Malmberg, A., and P. Maskell. (1997). “Towards an explanation of regional specialization and industrial agglomeration,” European Planning Studies, 5(1): 25-41. (in Edquist, V:1, 184-200)
- Weller, Robert P. 2005. Civil Associations and Autonomy Under Three Regimes: The Boundaries of State and Society in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and China. In Weller, Robert P. (ed.), Civil Life, Globalization, and Political Change in Asia. London: Routledge. Pp. 76-94.
- Wang, Ya Ping, 2007, “From Socialist Welfare to Support of Home-Ownership: The Experience of China,’ in Richard Groves et al (eds.), Housing and The New Welfare State: Perspectives from East Asia and Europe, Hampshire, England: Ashgate Publishing Ltd.
Week 16 Completing term paper. No class.