Power and Society in Postcolonial Southeast Asia IS 836 (4)

Provides a survey of ethnographic scholarship on Southeast Asia, with special emphasis on the global forces shaping Southeast Asian modernization and postcolonial development. Examines Southeast Asian geography, history, belief systems, marriage and family, agriculture, industrialization and urbanization, politics and government, from the grounded perspectives of ordinary people. Students with credit for IS 314 or IS 808 under the title "National, Regional, and International Politics in Southeast Asia" may not take this course for further credit.