2005 NEH Institute
Southeast Asia: Indigenous Cultures and Outside Influences

Institute Readings

Week One

Monday, June 20

Barbara and Leonard Andaya Session:

“Southeast Asia Before History,” Chap 2. in The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia, Volume One (From early times to c.1500), Cambridge University Press, 1999 (pp55-136)

Tuesday, June 21

David Welsh and Judy McNeill Session:

Ian Glover, “The Southern Silk Road: Archaeological Evidence for Early Trade Between India and Southeast Asia,” Ancient Trades and Cultural Contacts in Southeast Asia, 1996 (pp57-85)

Himanshu Prabha Ray, “The Emergence of Urban Centres in Bengal: Implications for the Late Prehistory of Southeast Asia,” Indo-Pacific Prehistory: The Chiang Mai Papers, Vol. 3, 1997 (pp43-48)

Jane Allen Session:

Kenneth R. Hall, “State and Statecraft in early Southeast Asia,” Chap. 1 in Maritime Trade and State Development in Early Southeast Asia, University of Hawaii Press, 1985 (pp1-25)

Liam Kelley Session:

Neil L. Jamieson, “Understanding Vietnam,” in Early Modern Vietnamese Culture, (pp117-154)

Wednesday, June 22

Patricia Henry Session:

* Goenawan Mohamad, “Kali: A Libretto,” in Beginning to Remember: The Past in the Indonesian Present, (pp. 47-73)

* excerpt from Ramayana: King Rama’s Way, retold by William Buck, “The Golden Deer,”
(pp 132-142).

* excerpt from Mahabharata, retold by William Buck, “The Falling Sand,” (pp56-68).

* verse from Arjuna Wiwaha, “There are those who watch the shadow play.”

* excerpt from The Poetics of the Ramakian, by Theodora Bofman (pp120-127).

* excerpts from Voices of the Puppet Masters, by Mimi Herbert.

a) “Wahyucakraningrat” by Saini Kosim;
b) Synopses of Selected Stories (pp230-235).

* “A  Poem for the Battle of Abimanyu” by Rendra.

* excerpts from Virtual Lotus: Modern Fiction of Southeast Asia, Teri Shaffer Yamada (ed.)

a) “Interview with Ravana,” by Yudhistira ANM Massardi (pp70-74).
b) “The Purification of Sita,” by Leila S. Chudori (pp96-102).
c) “Sita Puts Out the Fire,” by Sri Daoruang (pp201-209).

* excerpt from The Lioness in Bloom, Susan Fulop Kepner (trans. and ed.), “Matsii,” by Sri Dao
Ruang (pp. 95-103).

* “The last time I watched wayang,” by Pramoedya Ananta Toer.

Michael Shuster Session:

“Introduction” to Indian Theatre: Traditions of Performances (Richmond, Swann, Zarrilli, eds.), University of Hawaii Press, 1990 (pp1-13)

James Brandon, “The Period of Indian Cultural Influence,” in Theatre in Southeast Asia, Harvard University Press, 1967 (pp12-27)

Thursday, June 23

Michael Aung-Thwin Session:

Keith Taylor, “The Early Kingdoms,” in The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia, Vol. One, From Early Times to c. 1800, Cambridge University Press, 1992. (pp137-182)

optional:

G. Carter Bentley, “Indigenous States in Southeast Asia,” American Review of Anthropology, 15, 1986. (pp275-299)

Jerry Feldman Session:

Fiona Kerlogue, The Arts of Southeast Asia, New York, Thames & Hudson, 2004 (pp7-23)

Friday, June 24

No assigned readings

Week Two

Monday, June 27

Leonard Andaya Session:

To be announced

Juliane Schober Session:

Donald Swearer, Buddhism and Society in Southeast Asia, Anima Books, 1981 (pp1-65)

Tuesday, June 28

Juliane Schober Session:

Juliane Schober, “Buddhist Visions of Moral Authority and Civil Society: The Search for the Post-Colonial State in Burma,” in Burma at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century, Monique Skidmore (ed.), University of Hawaii Press, 2005 (pp113-133)

Peter Hershock Session:

Peter Hershock, “Governance Cultures and Countercultures: Religion, Politics, and the Public Good,” Chap. 5 in Facing the World and Going Crosswise: Buddhism and the Realization of Public Good

Wednesday, June 29

Michael Feener Session:

"The Arrival and Appeal of Islam in Southeast Asia"

Anna Gade and R. Michael Feener, “Muslim Thought and Practice in Contemporary Indonesia,” Islam in World Cultures: Comparative Perspectives, Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2004 (pp183-215)

"Islamic Conversion as Depicted in Indigenous Texts"

Russell Jones.  “Ten Conversion Myths from Indonesia,” Conversion to Islam, Nehemia Levtzion (ed.),  New York: Holmes and Meier, 1979 (pp. 129-158)

Thursday, June 30

Michael Feener Session:

"Islam under Colonialism"

Reynaldo Ileto, “Religion and Anti-Colonial Movements,” The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia, Nicholas Tarling (ed.) II:1, Cambridge University Press, 1992 (pp193-240)

"Global Islam, Modernity and the Extremist Challenge"

R. Michael Feener, Islam in World Cultures: Comparative Perspectives.  Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2004 (pp1-39)

Jon Goss Session:

Jon Goss, “Understanding the ‘Maluku Wars’: Overview of Sources of Communal Conflict and

Prospects for Peace,” Cakalele, Vol. 11, 2000, (pp7-39)

Friday, July 1

No assigned readings

Week Three

Monday, July 4

Leonard Andaya Session:

To be announced

Barbara Andaya Session:

Carolyn Brewer, Shamanism, Catholicism and Gender Relations in Colonial Philippines, 1521-1685, Ashgate, 2004, (pp101-25)

Katheringe L. Wiegele, Investing in Miracles: El Shaddai and the Transformation of Popular Culture in the Philippines, Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 2005, (pp1-33)

Robert Archer, “The Catholic Church in East Timor,” in Peter Carey and G. Carter Bentley, East Timor at the Crossroads: The Forging of a Nation, Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 1995, (pp120-33)

Tuesday, July 5

Ric Trimillos Session:

The Filipino Pasyon: Domesticating an Occidental Other

To be announced

Western Influence in Southeast Asian Music

To be announced

Wednesday, July 6

Henk Maier Session:

To be announced

Thursday, July 7

Henk Maier Session:

To be announced

Pandit Chanrochanakit Session:

Vichoke Mukdamanee, “Thai Contemporary Art: Mixed Media and Installation,” in Thai Contemporary Art 2000, Bangkok, Art Center, Silapakorn University, 2000 (pp76-83)

Apinan Poshyananda, “Contemporary Thai Art: Nationalism and Sexuality à la Thai,” in Traditions & Tension: Contemporary Art in Asia, New York, Asia Society, 1996, (pp102-110)

Garrett Solyom Session:

No assigned readings

Friday, July 8

No assigned readings

Week Four

Monday, July 11

William Frederick Session:

Robert McMahon, “The United States and Southeast Asia in an Era of Decolonization,” in Marc Frey, et al., (eds.), The Transformation of Southeast Asia. International Perspectives on Decolonization, Armonk, M.E. Sharpe, 2003, (pp213-225)

Barbara Harvey, “Diplomacy and Armed Struggle in the Indonesian National Revolution: Choice and Constraint in a Comparative Perspective,” in Daniel S. Lev and Ruth McVey, (eds.), Making Indonesia. Essays in Honor of George McT. Kahin, Ithaca, Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 1996, (pp66-80)

William H. Frederick, “Brothers of a Kind: Perspectives on Comparing the Indonesian and Vietnamese Revolutions,” in Taufik Abdullah, (ed.), The Heartbeat of [the] Indonesian Revolution, Jakarta: Gramedia, 1997, (pp1-19)

Wimal Dissanayake Session:

Wimal Dissanayake, “Nationhood, History, and Cinema: Reflections on the Asian Scene,” in Colonialism and Nationalism in Asian Cinema, Wimal Dissanayake (ed.), Indiana University Press, 1994, (ppix-xxix)

Tuesday, July 12

William Frederick Session:

Pramoedya Ananta Toer, “Acceptance,”  in Reflections on Rebellion: Stories from the Indonesian Upheavals of 1948 and 1965, William H. Frederick and John McGlynn (trans.), Athens, Ohio University Monographs in International Studies, 1983, (pp7-48)

S. Rukiah Kertapati,  “An Affair of the Heart,” in Reflections on Rebellion: Stories from the Indonesian Upheavals of 1948 and 1965, William H. Frederick and John McGlynn (trans.), Athens, Ohio University Monographs in International Studies, 1983, (pp49-105)

Idrus, “Surabaya,” S.U. Nababan and B. Anderson (trans.), Indonesia 5, April 1968, (pp1-28)

Wednesday, July 13

Barbara Andaya Session:

Susan Blackburn, Women and the State in Modern Indonesia, Melbourne, Cambridge University Press, 2004, (pp8-32)
Jayne Werner and Daniel Belanger (eds.), Gender, Household, State: Doi Moi in Viet Nam, Ithaca, Cornell Unviersity Southeast Asia Program, 2002, (pp13-28)

Thursday, July 14

Mary Callahan Session:

To be announced

Friday, July 15

No assigned readings

Week Five

Monday, July 18

Jon Goss Session:

Jonathan Rigg, “The Experience of Exclusion,” in Southeast Asia: The Human Landscape of Modernization and Development, Routledge Press, (pp109-151)

Tuesday, July 1

Jack Suyderhoud Session:

Takatoshi Ito, “Growth, Crisis, and the Future of Economic Recovery in East Asia,” (pp55-91)

Wednesday, July 20

Craig Lockard Session:

Craig Lockard, “Popular Musics and Politics in Modern Southeast Asia: A Comparative Analysis,” Asian Music, Vol. XXVII, No. 2, Spring/Summer 1996, (pp149-176)

Thursday, July 21

No assigned readings

Friday, July 22

No assigned readings

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