MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY

DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY

 

ANTH 530: Development Anthropology                                                            Fall 2005

Thursday 5:30–8:00 DI 436                                                          Dr. Richard W. Franke

 

Required Readings:

 

Chattopadhyay, Srikumar, and Richard W. Franke. 2005. The World Environmental Crisis and the Kerala Experience. Chapter 1 of Environmental Stress and Local Democratic Initiatives in Kerala. New Delhi: Concept Publishing Company. To be distributed.

 

Franke, Richard W. 2001. Fueling Economic Growth Through Democratic Participation: Three Lessons from Kerala, India. Chautauqua Institution Lecture, August 2001. To be distributed.

 

Franke, Richard W., and Barbara H. Chasin. 1997. Power to the Malayalee People. Economic and Political Weekly 32(48):3061–68. To be distributed.

 

Thomas Isaac, T. M., and Richard W. Franke. 2002. Local Democracy and Development: The Kerala People’s Campaign for Decentralized Development. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc.

 

McMichael, Philip. 2000. Development and Social Change: A Global Perspective. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press. Second Edition

 

Rahman, Aminur. 1999. Women and Microcredit in Rural Bangladesh: An Anthropological Study of Grameen Bank Lending. Boulder CO: Westview Press.

 

All assigned readings are available at the bookstore or will be distributed in class.

 

Course Requirements:

       Complete assigned readings before class. This will allow class discussions to review, criticize, and go beyond the readings. Class participation will count 20% in determining grades. There will be two take-home essay exams: a Midterm due in class on October 27 and a Final due on December 15. Each exam will contain essay questions. Answers will be 6-8 pages in length, typed, double-spaced, or equivalent. Each exam is worth 40% of the final grade.

 

Office Hours:

       Come and discuss issues that arise in the course or any prob­lems that you are having understanding the materials. My office is Dickson Hall    , ext. 4133. My email is franker@mail.montclair.edu

 

Hours when you can reach me:                   Wednesday     1:00–2:00 pm

                                                                 Thursday 4:30–5:30 pm

                                                                 Friday             1:00–2:00 pm

 

                                                                 Or other times at your request.

 

Week                          TOPICS TO BE STUDIED                            Readings

 

September 8            Introduction: What Is Development Anthropology?

 

September 15          What Is Development?                                   McMichael xiii–xliii

                              What Is Globalization?

 

September 22          History of Development and                            McMichael 3–76

                              Development Theories

 

September 29          FILM and Discussion: Sugar Cane Alley

 

October 6               The Global Economy Reborn                           McMichael 79–112

 

October 13              The Role of International Finance                    McMichael 113–146

 

 

October 20              The New Globalization                                    McMichael 149–237

 

October 20            Midterm Exam Questions to be Given out in Class.

 

 

October 27              FILM and Discussion: Salaam Bombay

October 27            Midterm Exams Due in Class

 

 

November 3            Rethinking Development                                 McMichael 241–303         Chattopadhyay and                                                                                                                                                                              Franke

 

November 10          The Global Economy at the Village                  Rahman (entire)

                              Level: An Anthropological View                     

 

November 17          Kerala's Democratic Decentralization:             Franke and Chasin:  

                              The Real Grameen Bank?                               Power to the

                                                                                                   Malayalee People;

                                                                                                   Franke: Fueling

                                                                                                   Economic Growth

 

November 24          Thanksgiving Holiday: No Class

 

 

December 1            Who Makes Development Happen:                 Thomas Isaac

                              Banks and NGOs or Workers                         and Franke,

                              and Activists?                                                pp. 1–114.

                              VIDEO: Kerala, The Quiet Revolution

 

 

December 8            Cooperatives and Fair Trade:                          Thomas Isaac

                              the Other Globalization?                                  and Franke,

                                                                                                   pp. 115–216

 

December 8         Final Exam Questions to be Given Out

 

 

December 15       FINAL EXAMINATION PAPERS DUE

                             NO Exams by Fax or E-Mail