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\n\tSE2880A: Southeast Asia’s Cultural Mosaic
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\n\tSummer School 2015
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\n\tModule: SE 2880A
\n\tModule Title: Southeast Asia’s Cultural Mosaic
\n\tTeaching Staff: Mohamed Effendy Bin Abdul Hamid, seameah@nus.edu.sg
\n\tClassroom: Lecture Venue: Seminar Room 8, ERC
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\n\tTeaching Modes
\n\tLectures, in-class discussions, group projects, presentations and fieldtrips
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\n\t\t\t\t\tThroughout the course\n\t\t\t\t\tIn-class participation\n\t\t\t\t\tStudents are expected to participate in all class discussion sessions\n\t\t\t\t\t15%
\n\t\t\t\t\t 2 July (Thursday)\n\t\t\t\t\t1000 word essay\n\t\t\t\t\tAn essay on Southeast Asia's religious and cultural spaces\n\t\t\t\t\t20%
\n\t\t\t\t\t22 July (Wednesday)\n\t\t\t\t\t3000 word fieldtrip report on Indonesia or Myanmar\n\t\t\t\t\tJoint assessment with elective module\n\t\t\t\t\t50%
\n\t\t\t\t\t24 July (Friday)\n\t\t\t\t\tJoint student conference\n\t\t\t\t\tPresentation of group projects\n\t\t\t\t\t15%
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\n\tWEEK 1
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\n\tLecture 1: Southeast Asia Introduction to Indonesia: Historical complexities and Socio-Cultural transformations and transitions.   (Tuesday, 23 June, 1400 hrs.-1700 hrs.)
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\n\tPrapanca. Desawarnana (Nagarakrtagama). Verhandelingen Van Het Koninklijk Instituut Voor Taal-, Land- En Volkenkunde.  Leiden: KITLV Press, 1995. (BOOK)
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\n\tRicklefs, M. C. A History of Modern Indonesia since C.1200. 4th ed.  London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. (BOOK)
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\n\tRicklefs, M. C. "Unity and Disunity in Javanese Political and Religious Thought of the Eighteenth Century." Modern Asian Studies 26, no. 4 (1992): 663-78. (JSTOR)
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\n\tKroef, Justus M. van der. "Javanese Messianic Expectations: Their Origin and Cultural Context." Comparative Studies in Society and History 1, no. 4 (1959): 299-323. (JSTOR)
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\n\tBloembergen, Marieke, and Martijn Eickhoff. "Conserving the Past, Mobilizing the Indonesian Future: Archaeological Sites, Regime Change and Heritage Politics in Indonesia in the 1950s." Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 167, no. 4 (2011): 405-36. (JSTOR)
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\n\tKoentjaraningrat. "Anthropology in Indonesia." Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 18, no. 2 (1987): 217-34. (JSTOR)
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\n\tLecture 2: Martial Arts in the Indonesian-Malay world. (Martial Arts Night at Utown dance Atelier 2 June 26th (7pm-10pm) counts as lecture 2 for SE2880A module only.
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\n\tThe Malay Kĕris: its origin and development by G. C. Woolley in Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Vol. 20, No. 2 (142) (December, 1947), pp. 60-103 (JSTOR)
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\n\tWeapons and fighting arts of the Indonesian archipelago by Donn F. Draeger (RBR)
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\n\tWEEK 2
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\n\tLecture 3: Post-Colonial Indonesia and the complexities of Nation building. (Tuesday, 30 June, 1400 hrs.-1700 hrs.)
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\n\tWatch the clip before class: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLQxVy7R9qo. Werner Herzog and Errol Morris talk about "The Act of Killing"
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\n\tReadings:
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\n\tAzra, Azyumardi. "Managing Pluralism in Southeast Asia: Indonesian Experience." Peace Research 36, no. 1 (2004): 43-56. (JSTOR)
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\n\tLiddle, R. Williamand Saiful Mujani. "Indonesia in 2004: The Rise of Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono." Asian Survey 45, no. 1 (2005): 119-26. (JSTOR)
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\n\tWelsh, Bridget. "Local and National: Keroyokan Mobbing in Indonesia." Journal of East Asian Studies 8, no. 3 (2008): 473-504. (JSTOR)
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\n\tHuat, Chua Beng. "Looking for Democratization in Post-Soeharto Indonesia." Contemporary Southeast Asia 15, no. 2 (1993): 131-60. (JSTOR)
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\n\tLiddle, R. William. "Soeharto's Indonesia: Personal Rule and Political Institutions." Pacific Affairs 58, no. 1 (1985): 68-90. (JSTOR)
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\n\tWEEK 3
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\n\tNo class in Singapore. Fieldtrip to Indonesia (3rd July- All students assemble at Utown bus pickup point at 4.30am. Bus will pick us up at 5am and bring us to Changi aiport Terminal 2 or T2) 
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\n\tFlight SilkAir MI152   Singapore - Yogyakarta  0810-0930 
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\n\tWEEK 4
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\n\tLecture 4: PLAN A Visit to Indonesian Embassy for dialogue (TBC) – (Tuesday, 14 July) OR PLAN B lecture and excursion at Labrador park: Former military base and pre-colonial vestiges. 
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\n\tLecture 5: Guest lecture by Mr. Suryakenchana Omar on the Javanese in Singapore and Southeast Asia. (Thursday, 16 July, 1400hrs.-1700hrs.)
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\n\tReadings:
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\n\tWessing, Robert. "A Community of Spirits: People, Ancestors, and Nature Spirits in Java." Crossroads: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 18, no. 1 (2006): 11-111. (JSTOR)
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\n\tWalton, Susan Pratt. "Aesthetic and Spiritual Correlations in Javanese Gamelan Music." The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 65, no. 1 (2007): 31-41. (JSTOR)
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\n\tErrington, Joseph. "Going 'Un-Native' in Indonesia (N)." Social Analysis: The International Journal of Social and Cultural Practice 50, no. 1 (2006): 178-83. (JSTOR)
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\n\tPoedjosoedarmo, Soepomo. "Javanese Speech Levels." Indonesia, no. 6 (1968): 54-81. (JSTOR)
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\n\tErrington, J. Joseph. "Self and Self-Conduct among the Javanese "Priyayi" Elite." American Ethnologist 11, no. 2 (1984): 275-90. (JSTOR)
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\n\tSmith-Hefner, Nancy J. "Women and Politeness: The Javanese Example." Language in Society 17, no. 4 (1988): 535-54. (JSTOR)
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\n\tWEEK 5
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\n\tLecture 6: Keramat walk (Visit to various Keramats in Singapore. Meet at 10am. Bugis MRT Station. (Tuesday, 21 July, 1000 hrs.-1300 hrs.)
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\n\tThe Straits Times, 11 June 1939, Page 16. Singapore's Keramats. http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Page/straitstimes19390611-1.1.16.aspx
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\n\tRivers, P. J. "Keramat in Singapore in the Mid-Twentieth Century." Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 76, no. 2 (285) (2003): 93-119. (JSTOR)
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\n\tMandal, Sumit K. "Popular Sites of Prayer, Transoceanic Migration, and Cultural Diversity: Exploring the Significance of Keramat in Southeast Asia." Modern Asian Studies 46, no. 2 (2012): 355-72. (JSTOR)
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\n\tTschacher, Torsten. "From Local Practice to Transnational Network — Saints, Shrines and Sufis among Tamil Muslims in Singapore." Asian Journal of Social Science 34, no. 2 (2006): 225-42. (JSTOR)
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\n\tLecture 7: Summary and Conclusion. (Wednesday, 22 July, 1400 hrs.-1700 hrs.)
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