The syllabus is comprised of books, articles in Readers and online articles.
Required books are purchased at Akademika bookstore or ordered from online booksellers, such as amazon.co.uk. Required books are also available at the University Library (provided the item is held).
Compendia can be purchased at the “Kopiutsalget” on the lower floor of Akademika bookstore. Valid student ID and semester card must be presented on purchasing compendia. If “Kopiutsalget” has sold out of a compendium please contact the department as early as possible in the semester in order that more may be obtained.
Many of the online articles require that you use a computer within the university network. If outside the university network, open your web browser and go to UiO Network services
Books
@ Osburg, John. 2013. Anxious Wealth. Money and Morality Among China’s New Rich. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 234 pages
@ Tania Li. 2014. Land’s End. Durham: Duke. 240 pages.
Curriculum Articles in Readers / Compendia
Cannell, Fenella. 2001. “Beauty and the idea of America”. In Fenella Cannell: Power and Intimacy in the Christian Philippines (chapter 10), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 203-226.
Kim, Jaesok. 2013. “Introduction”, in Chinese Labor in a Korean Factory. Class, Ethnicity, and Productivity on the Shop Floor in Globalizing China (introduction), Stanford: Stanford University Press, pp. 1-34.
King, Victor T. and William D. Wilder. 2003. "South-East Asia. A Field of anthropological enquiry?". In The Modern Anthropology of Southeast Asia. An Introduction, pp. 1-24.
Stafford, Charles. 2000. “Chinese patriliny and the cycles of Yang and Laiwang”. Cultures of Relatedness: New Approaches to the Study of Kinship. Edited by Janet Carsten. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 35-54.
Stoler, Ann Laura. 1994. “Sexual Affronts and Racial Frontiers: European Identities and the Cultural Politics of Exclusion in Southeast Asia”. In Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World. Edited by Ann Laura Stoler and Frederick Cooper Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 198-237.
Curriculum Online articles
Allison, Anne. 1994. Nightwork. Sexuality, Pleasure and Corporate Masculinity. (introduction). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. 7- 30. online ch
Anderson, Benedict. 2001. “Western nationalism and eastern nationalism”. New Left Review. 9: 31-42. newleftreview.org
Carsten, Janet. 2013. “Ghosts, Commensality, and Scuba Diving: Tracing Kinship and Sociality in Clinical Pathology Labs and Blood Banks in Penang”, In Vital Relations: Kinship as a Critique of Modernity. Edited by Susan McKinnon and Fenella Cannell, Santa Fe: SAR Press, pp. 109-130. online ch
Chua, Liana. 2016, “Gifting, dam(n)ing and the ambiguation of development in Malaysian Borneo.” Ethnos. 81 (4): 735-757. tandfonline.com
Errington, Shelly. 1983. “Embodied sumange’ in Luwu”. The Journal of Asian Studies. 42 (3): 545-570. jstor.org
Hinton, Alexander L. 1998. “‘Why did you kill?: The Cambodian genocide and the dark side of face and honor.” The Journal of Asian Studies. 57 (1): 93-122. jstor.org
Howell, Signe. 1989. “To be angry is not human, but to be fearful is’: Chewong concepts of human nature”, in Societies at peace: Anthropological perspectives. Edited by Signe Howell and R. Willis. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 45–59. online ch
Jager, Sheila Miyoshi. 1996. “Women, Resistance and the Divided Nation: The Romantic Rhetoric of Korean Reunification.” The Journal of Asian Studies. 55 (1): 3-21. jstor.org
Keeler, Ward. 2016, “Shifting transverals: Trans women’s move from spirit mediumship to beauty work in Mandalay”. Ethnos. 81 (5): 792-820. tandfonline.com
Kelsky, Karen. 1999. “Gender, Modernity, and Eroticized Internationalism in Japan.” Cultural Anthropology. 14 (2): 229-255. onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Kendall, Laurel. 1996. “Korean Shamans and the spirits of capitalism.” American Ethnologist. 98 (3): 512-527. jstor.org
Kwon, Heonik. 2013. “Legacies of the Korean War. Transforming Ancestral Rituals in South Korea”, Memory Studies. 6 (2): 161-173. sagepub.com
Kwon, Heonik. 2006. After the Massacre: Commemoration and Consolation in Ha My and My Lai (introduction). Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 1-10. online ch
Lee, Ching Kwan. “The Specter of Global China”. New Left Review. 89, 2-38. newleftreview.org
Mathews, Gordon. 2015. “East Asian Anthropology in the World.” American Ethnologist, 11 (2): 364-372. onlinelibrary.wiley.com
McKay, Deidre. 2010. ‘A transnational pig: Reconstituting kinship among Filipinos in Hong Kong’. The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 11 (3-4): 330-344. tandfonline.com
Ong, Aihwa. 1987. Spirits of Resistance and Capitalist Discipline: Factory Women in Malaysia (chapter 1). Albany: SUNY Press, pp. 1-10. sunypress.edu
Rosaldo, Michelle. 1983. “The shame of headhunters and the autonomy of the self”. Ethos. 11(3): 135-151. jstor.org
Rudnyckyjm Daromyr. 2009. “Spiritual Economies: Islam and Neoliberalism in Contemporary Indonesia.” Cultural Anthropology. 24 (1): 104-141. onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Scott, James. 1976. The Moral Economy of the peasant. Rebellion and Subsistence in Southeast Asia (introduction). New Haven: Yale University Press, pp. 1-12. ucsd.edu
Wikan, Unni. 1987. Managing Turbulent Hearts (introduction). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. xv – xxvi. online ch