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課程資訊

課程名稱

政治人類學當代議題
Political Anthropology and Contemporary Issue

開課學期

101-2

授課對象

文學院人類學系

授課教師

林開世

課號

Anth4008

課程識別碼

105 41910

班次

學分

全/半年

半年

必/選修

選修

上課時間

星期四6,7,8(13:20~16:20)

上課地點

水源人201

備註

本課程中文授課,使用英文教科書。
總人數上限：20人

Ceiba 課程網頁

http://ceiba.ntu.edu.tw/1012political

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課程概述

這門課將介紹政治人類學的基本概念與歷史發展，從古典的民族誌個案為基礎，從結構功能論開始，經過衝突論與過程論的挑戰，再逐步進入當代議題，特別是有關權力的性質與權力理論的議題。

政治人類學在1980年代以後，就逐漸在人類學的理論發展中褪色。來自馬克思主義、subaltern studies、Foucaultian、後殖民主義的挑戰，更讓「政治」能否自成領域遭受嚴重的質疑。這門課將檢討這些挑戰，以民族主義、國家等新起的理論議題為中心，探討人類學的政治研究應當如何重構，以及現在必須面臨的挑戰。

課程目標

課程要求

這是一門以閱讀討論為主的專題課，修課同學需要閱讀當週的材料，前兩堂由同學輪流摘要報告，並帶領課堂討論。第三堂由我講課並總結。每堂課上課前，請先繳交閱讀材料之摘要2-3頁。摘要後，歡迎同學以他有興趣的領域或區域的材料為基礎，提供比較或批評的意見。

期中考採取take-home，期末請繳交報告一篇，題目可以是理論整理，個案分析或比較。必須在2000字以上(不包含書目)。請在第13週或之前，與我先討論報告題目。我不接受沒有事先確認可行的期末報告。

學期評分：上課討論20%，摘要20%，期中考20%，期末報告40%。

預期每週課後學習時數

Office Hours

每週三 14:00~16:00 備註：或以電話或e-mail事先預約

指定閱讀

◎Gledhill, John
2000 Power and Its Disguises: Anthropological Perspectives on Politics. London: Pluto Press.

◎Lewellen, T. C.
2003 Political anthropology : an introduction. Westport, Conn., Praeger.
Vincent, Joan
1990 Anthropology and Politics: Vision, Traditions, and Trends. Tuscon: The University of Arizona Press.
◎Vincent, Joan（edited）
2002 The Anthropology of Politics: A Reader in Ethnography, Theory, and
Critique.Malden, MA.:Blackwell Publishers.

參考書目

評量方式
(僅供參考)

No.	項目	百分比	說明
1.	上課討論	20%
2.	摘要	25%
3.	期中考	20%
4.	期末報告	35%

課程進度

週次	日期	單元主題
第1週	2/21	課程簡介
第2週	2/28	放假
第3週	3/07	人類學面臨對權力 1. Ch. 19 [Vincent reader] – Eric Wolf, “Facing Power—Old Insights, New Questions,” 222-233. 2. Gledhill, Ch. 1, “Locating the political: a political anthropology for today,” 1-22. ※Vincent (1990), Part II: 223-307;
第4週	3/14	階序的出現及其限制1. Gledhill, Ch. 2, “The origins and limits of coercive power: the anthropology of stateless societies,” 23-44. 2.Lewellen, T. C. (2003). Political anthropology : an introduction. Chapter 2, Types of Preindustrial Political Systems
第5週	3/21	現代權力的出現Gledhill, Ch. 3, “From hierarchy to surveillance: the politics of agrarian civilizations and the rise of the western national state,” 45-66. Lewellen, T. C. (2003). Political anthropology : an introduction. Chapter 3 The Evolution of the State, 安東尼紀登斯 2002民族國家與暴力台北: 左岸.
第6週	3/28	殖民主義與人類學 1. Gledhill, Ch. 4, “The political anthropology of colonialism: a study of domination and resistance,” 67-91. Asad, Talal 1973 “Introduction” to Anthropology and Colonial Encounter
第7週	4/04	休假
第8週	4/11	古典的檢討　衝突與過程論1.*古典的研究[Vincent reader] Ch. 3,4,7,8 Ch. 5 [Vincent reader] – Talal Asad, “Market Model, Class Structure and Consent: A Reconsideration of Swat Political Organization,” 65-81. Lewellen, T. C. 2003 ch. 5 & 6 Political anthropology : an introduction.
第9週	4/18	後殖民的世界*1. Gledhill, Ch. 5, “Post-colonial states: legacies of history and pressures of modernity,” 92-126. 2. Ch. 20 [Vincent reader] – June Nash, “Ethnographic Aspects of the World Capitalist System,” 234-254. 3. Ch. 12 [Vincent reader] – Talal Asad, “From the History of Colonial Anthropology to the Anthropology of Western Hegemony,” 133-142
第10週	4/25	期中考
第11週	5/02	過程與能動者 *Gledhill, Ch. 6, “From macro-structure to micro-process: anthropological analysis of political practice” 127-152. 布赫迪厄 2004 實作理論綱要第二章結構與習性麥田
第12週	5/09	從殖民到全球化1. Gledhill, Ch. 7, “Political process and ‘global disorder’: perspectives on contemporary conflict and violence,” 153-183. 2. Ch. 21 [Vincent reader] – Benedict Anderson, “The New World Disorder,” 262-270. 3. Ch. 23 [Vincent reader] – Jonathan Friedman, “Transnationalization, Socio-political Disorder, and Ethnification as Expressions of Declining Global Hegemony,” 285-300. Hirsch et al (2007) “Anthropologists are Talking about Anthropology After Globalization.” Ethnos 72(1):102-26 Appadurai, Arjun. 1996. Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy. In Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization. University of Minnesota Press. Comaroff, John and Jean. 2001. Inroduction. In Millenial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism Durham: Duke University Press
第13週	5/16	發展與環境Ch. 31 [Vincent reader] – James Ferguson, “The Anti-political Machine,” 399-408. Escobar, A. (1999). "After nature." Current anthropology 40(1): 1-30. Fortmann, L. (1995). "Talking claims: Discursive strategies in contesting property." World Development 23(6): 1053-1063. Agrawal, A. (2005). "Environmentality:Community, intimate government, and the making of environmental subjects in Kumaon, India." Current Anthropology 46(2): 161-190.
第14週	5/23	5/23當代的社會運動 Gledhill, Ch. 8, “Society Against the Modern State? The Politics of Social Movements” 184-213. Edelman, M. (2005). "Bringing the Moral Economy back into the Study of 21st-Century Transnational Peasant Movements." American Anthropologist 107(3): 331-345. 參考M. Edelman, 2001, “Social Movements: Changing Paradigms and Forms of Politics,” Annual Review of Anthropology, 30/1, pp. 285-317.
第15週	5/30	5/30身體與技術（一） B. Aretxaga, “Dirty Protest,” Ethos, 1995, 23/2, pp. 123-148. Joao Biehl 2001 ” Vita: Life in a zone of social abandonment” Social Text 68, Vol. 19, No. 3, Fall 2001. Bourgois, P. and J. Schonberg (2007). "Intimate apartheid." Ethnography 8(1): 7-31. 延伸閱讀 :李維 (Levi, Primo, 1919-1987) 著 “滅頂與生還” 李淑珺譯, 臺北市 : 時報文化, 2001[民90]
第16週	6/06	6/6身體與技術（二） Petryna, Adriana　2003 Science and Citizenship under Postsocialism. Social Research: An　International Quarterly 70(2):551-577. Rabinow, Paul “Artificiality and Enlightenment: From Sociobiology to Biosociality” in Essays on the Anthropology of Reason, Chapter 5. 延伸閱讀 : Brodkin, K. (2000). "Global Capitalism: What's Race Got to Do With It?" American Ethnologist 27(2): 237-256.
第17週	6/13	6/13全球性暴力結構 *Nordstrom, Carolyn 2000 “Shadows and sovereigns.” Theory, Culture & Society 17(4):35-54. Carolyn Nordstrom Shadows of war : violence, power, and international profiteering in the twenty-first century
第18週	06/20	結語 Gledhill, ch. 9 “Anthropology and Politics: commitment, responsibility and the academy”