SOAN 309: Colonization and Development
Fall 1999 MWF 10:30-11:20 Alumni 108
Professor Thomas D. Hall
417 Alumni Hall, x7545, email:thall; web people.colgate.edu/thall
Office Hours: MWF 11:30 -12N; MW 2:30-3:30 & by appt.

Course Schedule -- ** See Webpage for Updates**

Last Updated 9-28-99
W DATES

Topics & Readings

Comments
1 8/30-9/3 I. What's It All About?

Shannon 1 & 2; Memmi pp. vii-xxix; 155-169; N-H Prol & 1; *Wolf 1 & 2; [REC Perry 1 & 2]

 Start Things Fall Apart
2 9/6-10 II. European Expansion: Wolf 3 & 4; Shannon 3 9 end add
3 9/13-17 Wolf 5 - 8 RP1 out
4 9/20-24 Con't  
5 9/27-10/1 Shannon 4 RP1 due 27
6 10/4-8 III. Up Close: Memmi pp. 3-76; N-H 2 -7 Start Child of All Nations
7 10/11-15 Memmi pp. 77-153 11&12th Fall Brk
8 10/18-22 N-H 8-14 RP 2 out; mid-term here?
9 10/25-29 IV. The IR & the World: Wolf 9; Shannon 4 27 S reg; 29 last drop
10 11/1-3 Wolf 10; Shannon 5 " ; RP 2 due; Start A Man of the People
11 11/8-10 Wolf 11 & 12; Shannon 6 & 8 8 S reg; 10 Hall to SSHA
12 11/15-17 Con't 17 Hall to AAA
13 11/22-24 V. Reports on Ethnographies; TG BK 24-28th 1st report 11/22
14 11/29-12/1 Reports on Ethnographies #'s 2, 3, 4  
15 12/6-10 Summing up and Review RP3 due 6 Last class 12/10
16 12/14-20 Final Exam Tuesday 12/14, 9 -- 11am  

ASSIGNED TEXTS: Reserve Texts:

Perry, Richard J. 1996. From Time Immemorial: Indigenous Peoples and State Systems.

REQUIRED TEXTS:

Shannon, Thomas R. 1996. An Introduction to the World-System Perspective 2nd ed.
Memmi, Albert. The Colonizer and the Colonized.
N-H: Norberg-Hodge, Helena. 1991. Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladak.
Wolf, Eric R. 1982. Europe and the People Without History

REACTION TEXTS:

A1: Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart.
A2: Achebe, Chinua, A Man of the People.
Toer, Pramoedya Ananta. 1991. Child of All Nations.

OPTIONAL TEXTS [each student will use ONLY ONE]:

Bishop, Ryan, Lilian S. Robinson. 1998. Night Market: Sexual Cultures and the Thai Economic Miracle.
Peluso, Nancy Lee. 1992. Rich Forests, Poor People: Resource Control and Resistance in Java.
Stoler, Ann Laura. 1995. Capitalism and Confrontation in Sumatras Plantation Belt, 1870-1979.
Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt. 1993. In the Realm of the Diamond Queen: Marginality in an Out of the Way Place.