HH4024 LINEAGE, RITUAL, & THE STATE IN ASIA

1) How the 'Big Man' Legitimates his Power: Constructing Ritual Relations to the Local Gods and the Ancestral Dead 2) Case Study 1: The 'Big Man' as Emperor: Thinking Anthropologically about Political Legitimation in the Early Chinese State I 3) The 'Big Man' - as Emperor: Thinking Anthropologically about Political Legitimation in the Early Chinese State II 4) Disciplining the Body/Disciplining the State: The Relationship between Sexuality and Political Economy in the Scholarship of Michel Foucault 5) Case Study 2: The 'Big Man' at the Medieval Indian Court: Legitimating Rulership via Ritual and Bodily Discipline I 6) The 'Big Man' at the Medieval Indian Court: Legitimating Rulership via Ritual and Bodily Discipline II 7) The Monastic Order as a Representation of the Cosmic Order: The Buddha as Ideal Mediator between Dead Ancestors and their Living Descendants 8) Case Study 3: The 'Big Man' as Monk: The Buddhist Order as a Force for Social and Political Legitimation in Medieval China 9) Case Study 4: The Buddhist Order Mediates Ritual Contact with the Ancestral Dead in Modern Cambodia 10) Shamanism as Political and Social Legitimation: Theories of Shamanism, Spirit-Possession and Trance 11) Case Study 5: Channeling the Dead to Reaffirm the Social and Political Order in Contemporary India: Shamanism, Lineage and the Reaffirmation of the Socio-political Order in Orissa and Andhra Pradesh II 12) Channeling the Dead to Reaffirm the Social and Political Order in Contemporary India: Shamanism, Lineage and the Reaffirmation of the Socio-political Order in Orissa and Andhra Pradesh II 13) Course Review

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