Readings

Required Texts

Buy at Amazon Emecheta, Buchi. The Joys of Motherhood. New York: G. Braziller, 1980. ISBN: 9780807609507.

Buy at Amazon Hodgson, Dorothy. Once Intrepid Warriors: Gender, Ethnicity and the Cultural Politics of Maasai Development. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780253214515.

Buy at Amazon de Chungara, Domitila. Let Me Speak! New York: Monthly Review Press, 1979. ISBN: 9780853454458.

Buy at Amazon Gutmann, Matthew. The Meanings of Macho: Being a Man in Mexico City. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. ISBN: 9780520202368.

Buy at Amazon Farmer, Paul. Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780520229136.

Buy at Amazon Wolf, Diane. Factory Daughters: Gender, Household Dynamics, and Rural Industrialization in Java. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992. ISBN: 9780520070721.

Readings by Class Session

SES # TOPICS READINGS
Introduction
1 Defining "Development"
Part 1: The Colonial Legacy: The Gendered Precedents of Development
2 The Colonial Legacy Emecheta, Buchi. The Joys of Motherhood.
3 The Colonial Legacy (cont.) Emecheta, Buchi. The Joys of Motherhood. (cont.)
4 Colonial Images of "Native" Women and Men Buy at Amazon Hobsbawm, Eric. "The Age of Empire." Chapter 3 in The Age of Empire. Pantheon, 1987. ISBN: 9780394563190.

Buy at Amazon Stoler, Ann Laura. "Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power, Gender, Race, and Morality in Colonial Asia." In Gender / Sexuality Reader, Culture, History, Political Economy. Edited by Roger N. Lancaster, and Micaela di Leonardo. New York and London: Routledge, 1997. ISBN: 9780415910057.

Meyrick, A. S. Selections from Woman in All Lands. (Primary document.) Copyright unknown. 1880.
5 Film: First Contact

Colonial Transformations of Gender
Buy at Amazon Rothenberg, Diane. "The Mothers of the Nation: Seneca Resistance to Quaker Intervention." In Women and Colonization . Edited by Mona Etienne and Eleanor Leacock. Bergin & Garvey, 1980. ISBN: 9780030525865.

Allen, Judith Van. " 'Sitting on a Man': Colonialism and the Lost Political Institutions of Igbo Women." Canadian Journal of African Studies 6, 2 (1972): 165-181.
6 Women, Tradition and Modernism Chatterjee, Partha. "Colonialism, Nationalism and Colonialized Women: the Contest in India." In American Ethnologist.

Walley, Christine. " 'Searching for "Voices" ': Feminism, Anthropology, and the Global Debate over Female Genital Operations." Cultural Anthropology 12, 3 (1997): 405-438. New York University, American Anthropological Association.
7 Socialism and Post-Colonialism Chungara, Domitila de. Let Me Speak!
8 Socialism and Post-Colonialism (cont.) Chungara, Domitila de. Let Me Speak! (cont.)
9 Film: Joe Leahy's Neighbors
Part 2: The Rise of Development Theory
10 The Rise of Development Theory Buy at Amazon Cooper, Fred, and Randal Packard, eds. "Introduction." In International Development and the Social Sciences. Edited by Fred Cooper, and Randal Packard. Berkley: University of California Press, 1998. ISBN: 9780520209572. 

Buy at Amazon Nyerere, Julius K. "Socialism and Rural Development." Chapter 37 in Freedom and Socialism. Dar es Salaam: Oxford University Press, 1990. (African Variations: Julius Nyerere on Development.) ISBN: 9780196440606.

Finnemore, Martha. "Redefining Development at the World Bank." Chapter 7 in International Development and Social Sciences.
11 Critics from within the Economic Frame Buy at Amazon Ake, Claude. "The Development Paradigm and its Politics." Chapter 1 in Democracy and Development in Africa. Washington DC: The Brookings Institution, 1996. ISBN: 9780815702207.

Mitchell, Timothy. "Fixing the Economy." Cultural Studies 12, 1 (1998): 82-101. Routledge.

Sen, Amartya. "The Economics of Life and Death." In Scientific American. May 1993.
Part 3: Development and Daily Life
12 Film: Our Friends at the Bank Buy at Amazon Hodgson, Dorothy. Once Intrepid Warriors. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780253214515.
13 Development and Daily Life Hodgson, Dorothy. Once Intrepid Warriors. (cont.)
14 Development and Daily Life (cont.) Hodgson, Dorothy. Once Intrepid Warriors. (cont.)
15 Development and Bureaucracy Ferguson, James. "The Bovine Mystique: Power, Property and Livestock in Rural Lesotho." Man 20: 647-74.

Pigg, Stacey Leigh. "The Credible and the Credulous: The Question of 'Villagers' Beliefs' in Nepal." Cultural Anthropology 2, 2 (1996): 160-201.
16 Knowledge and the Environment Buy at Amazon Gupta, Akhil. "Indigenous Knowledges: Ecology." In Postcolonial Developments. Durham: Duke University Press, 1998. ISBN: 9780822322139.

Agarwal, Bina. "Development and Environment: 'The Gender and Environment Debate: Lessons from India'." Feminist Studies 18, 1 (Spring 1992).

Walley, Christine J. " 'They Scorn Us Because We Are Uneducated': Knowledge and Power in a Tanzanian Marine Park." Ethnography 3, 3 (2002): 265-298.
17 The Complexities of Activism Turner, Terence. "The Social Dynamics of Video Media in an Indigenous Society: The Cultural Meaning and the Personal Politics of Video-Making in Kayapo Communities." Visual Anthropology Review 7, 2 (Fall 1991).

Hodgson, Dorothy. Precarious Alliances: The Cultural Politics and Structural Predicaments of the Indigenous Rights Movement in Tanzania.
18 Film: Black Harvest
Part 4: Further into Daily Life: The Politics of Poverty outside the Development Frame
19 The Politics of Wage Labor Wolf, Diane. Selections from Factory Daughters.
20 Drawing the Line Between First and Third Worlds?
Buy at Amazon Duncan, Cynthia M. "Blackwell." Preface and Chapter 1 in Worlds Apart: Why Poverty Persists in Rural America. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780300084566.
21 Issues of Health

Guest Speaker: Erica James
Farmer, Paul. Selections from Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues.
22 Issues of Health (cont.) Farmer, Paul. Selections from Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues. (cont.)
23 Film: Celso and Cora Farmer, Paul. Selections from Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues. (cont.)
24 Thinking More About Gender Gutmann, Matthew. Selections from The Meanings of Macho.
25 Thinking More About Gender (cont.) Gutmann, Matthew. Selections from The Meanings of Macho. (cont.)