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Required Texts

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

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

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

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

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

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

Readings by Class Session

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Introduction
1Defining "Development"
Part 1: The Colonial Legacy: The Gendered Precedents of Development
2The Colonial LegacyEmecheta, Buchi. The Joys of Motherhood.
3The Colonial Legacy (cont.)Emecheta, Buchi. The Joys of Motherhood. (cont.)
4Colonial Images of "Native" Women and MenAmazon logo Hobsbawm, Eric. "The Age of Empire." Chapter 3 in The Age of Empire. Pantheon, 1987. ISBN: 9780394563190.

Amazon logo 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.
5Film: First Contact

Colonial Transformations of Gender
Amazon logo 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.
6Women, Tradition and ModernismChatterjee, 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.
7Socialism and Post-ColonialismChungara, Domitila de. Let Me Speak!
8Socialism and Post-Colonialism (cont.)Chungara, Domitila de. Let Me Speak! (cont.)
9Film: Joe Leahy's Neighbors
Part 2: The Rise of Development Theory
10The Rise of Development TheoryAmazon logo 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. 

Amazon logo 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.
11Critics from within the Economic FrameAmazon logo 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
12Film: Our Friends at the BankAmazon logo Hodgson, Dorothy. Once Intrepid Warriors. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780253214515.
13Development and Daily LifeHodgson, Dorothy. Once Intrepid Warriors. (cont.)
14Development and Daily Life (cont.)Hodgson, Dorothy. Once Intrepid Warriors. (cont.)
15Development and BureaucracyFerguson, 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.
16Knowledge and the EnvironmentAmazon logo 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.
17The Complexities of ActivismTurner, 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.
18Film: Black Harvest
Part 4: Further into Daily Life: The Politics of Poverty outside the Development Frame
19The Politics of Wage LaborWolf, Diane. Selections from Factory Daughters.
20Drawing the Line Between First and Third Worlds?
Amazon logo 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.
21Issues of Health

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

 








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