Prof. TatuTR 3 - 4:15Moore 423

ASAN 310

Asian HumanitiesSouth and Southeast Asia

Instructor: Robin TatuOffice: 411 MooreTel.: 956-2676 email: rtatu@hawaii.edu or rtatu@yahoo.com Office Hours: TR 1- 2:30 pm

Research interests: Balinese and Southeast Asian historiography, literature, performance; gender in Southeast Asia, South and Southeast Asian religious practice

Focus: -- pre-modern South and Southeast Asian-- spiritual beliefs, literature, music, visual arts,

histories --ongoing contested, representations of past-- global connections

 Issues: identity, religious belief/practice, gender relations, political power

Topics: (e.g.) cultural exchange, Ramayana performance, ritual practice, and politics of representation

Humanities, interdisciplinary. different ways of knowing: intellectual, emotional, spiritual, experiential.  

Get to know the blog:http://uhsea.wordpress.com/

. Laulima: https://laulima.hawaii.edu/portal

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Course Objective

Course Outline:

• Section One: The Global World

• Section Two: Ramayana Worlds

• Section Three: Buddhism & Classical SEA

• Section Four: Expressions of Identity

• Section Five: Re/Membering the Past

Interpretations: Many Ramayanas

Coming up Thursday:

1) Read GI Intro & chap. 1

2) Consider: what were the most important items traded? Why did people relate stories of travelers?

The Argument“Why Henry Kissinger Was Wrong”

-- not“a world apart”...“oblivious of either the comings or going” of other peoples

--“complex [civilizations] involved in myriad types of exchanges”

What do you do with an Asian Studies degree?

-- Director of International Studies, Thailand -- US Embassy, Cambodia -- JAG Air Force, deployed to France -- Fitness Center, China -- Fish Farming, Vietnam -- UH BA, MA, now in PhD political science -- MA, now in theater dept -- advanced military officers’ training -- JET program, Japan -- import-export company, China

South Asia

1. Afghanistan

2. Pakistan

3. India

4. Nepal

5. Bhutan

6. Bangladesh

7. Sri Lanka

8. Maldives

Southeast AsiaMyanmar (Burma)

Thailand

Cambodia

Laos

Vietnam

Singapore

Malaysia

Indonesia

Brunei

Philippines

East Timor (Timor Loro Sae)