| Required reading: Ledgerwood, J. 1995. “Khmer Kinship: The Matriliny/Matriarchy Myth,†Journal of Anthropological Research 51(3): 247-61. Derks, A. 2008. Chapter 3, pp.37-58 in Khmer Women on the Move. Required film: Rice People, by Rithy Panh (1994) (available at Powell, Instructional Media Library, 14399) Assignment (due in class): This week’s assignment has two parts. 1) (About one page) In one paragraph, define the terms matrilineal and matriarchal, and give one of the examples Ledgerwood uses to counter the claim that Cambodian society is neither. Then, illustrate through a few examples taken from Khmer Women on the Move and from Rice People differences in the roles that men and women undertake in Cambodia. 2) (One or two paragraphs) Please identify and describe the topic of your class projects. If you want to work on Cambodian society a list of potential topics is presented below. This is a non-exclusive list of topics we might not otherwise be able to cover in the course. You could also choose to work on another country on a topic similar to these or those discussed in the first half of the class (e.g., gender issues, social class, community, etc…) Topics: NGO and civil society; National education system; Public health services; Mental health issues; Controlling the HIV/AIDS epidemics; Anti-poverty programs; Land grabbing and evictions; Labor unions; Aid dependency; China’s role in Cambodia; The ECCC (a.k.a., Khmer-Rouge tribunal); Cambodian refugees in the U.S.A.; Labor migration; Return migration |
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