Readings

Required Texts

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

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

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

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

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

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

Readings by Class Session

Readings.

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	Hobsbawm, Eric. "The Age of Empire." Chapter 3 in The Age of Empire. Pantheon, 1987. ISBN: 9780394563190. 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	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	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.  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	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	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	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?	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.)