ANTH 569 A: Special Topics in Sociocultural Anthropology

Spring 2026
Meeting:
MW 1:30pm - 3:20pm
SLN:
10331
Section Type:
Lecture
SPECIAL TOPICS: VISUALITY IN SOUTHEAST ASIA. EXPLORES COLONIAL AND POSTCOLONIAL SOUTHEAST ASIA AND THEMES OF NATIONHOOD, IDEOLOGY, MEMORY, SEXUALITY, AND THE BODY THROUGH FILMS, ART, MIXED MEDIA, AND READINGS ON VISUAL PRACTICE.
Syllabus Description (from Canvas):

word version of syllabus here

 

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ANTH 569 Visuality in and out of Southeast Asia

 

 

word version of syllabus here.

 

M / W 1:30-3:20 pm

Smith Hall (SMI) 109

 

Professor Jenna Grant (she / her)

jmgrant@uw.edu

Office: 136 Denny Hall

Student hours: Tuesdays 10:00 - 11:30 am or by appointment

Department of Anthropology Office and Mailbox: Denny Hall 314

 

 

As a filmmaker, you don’t wait for reality,

you call it to the camera.

– Rithy Panh

 

 

Description

What can we learn about Southeast Asia through examination of imagery and visual practice? What can photography, film, art, and mixed media, in and out of Southeast Asia, teach us about colonial, post- and de-colonial modernity? In this course, we watch films and read work about visual practices that enable different understandings of nationhood, political economic ideology and activism, memory and exile, sexuality, race, and the body. It is motivated by the premise that images are crucial to how we know, make, and live in the world. The course cultivates critical visual skills through exercises of working with images as arguments and interventions.

 

Objectives

  • To engage key concerns in the field of Southeast Asia studies.
  • To develop a critical vocabulary for visual media and practice.
  • To cultivate skills for conducting visual research and analysis to advance an argument.
  • To understand how anthropologists study and write about their objects, and stimulate questioning about how you might do it (differently, or not).

 

Communication

I prefer to handle questions or issues in class or in student hours (Tuesdays 10:00 - 11:30 am) rather than by email. If something needs to happen over email, I will do my best to reply within 48 hours. I generally do not respond to email at night and on weekends.

 

Please communicate with me if you are having trouble showing up for yourself or your classmates, whether your issues have to do with the class (structure, workload, group dynamic) or with life outside the class. We will make a plan to support you.

 

Requirements

In-class discussion (10%). You are responsible for coming to class having done the reading, with notes, questions, and responses prepared. I may call on you in class to share with us: your take on the main arguments in the text; your definition of a key concept or term, with page numbers of relevant passages; a thoughtful question, provocation, or connection to other class readings. Thoughtful, creative contribution to in-class discussion over the quarter gets ten points; off-topic or merely descriptive comments get five points.

 

‘Bring your image’ response posting on Canvas (30%): Each week you are required to find an image or short clip related to the week’s materials and write a 250-500-word response. You can find the image online, create your own, or scan one from a hardcopy source. Like a reading response, your task is to relate the image to a concept or puzzle from the week’s materials, and, ideally, to ongoing themes in the course. There are guidelines on Canvas. Twenty points for doing this consistently and well over the quarter, ten points for doing this inconsistently or in a superficial manner. (6 x 5 points each = 30 points)

 

Presenting your image (10%): One time during the quarter you will present your image to the class as a mode of leading discussion. We will project the image and you will speak for five to ten minutes about the image and its relation to materials for the week, or ongoing themes in the course. Your job will primarily be to craft discussion questions that bring attention to specific passages from the reading, scenes from films, or images.  for the week and engage the class in discussion. You should also be able to provide additional background and your own reading of the material to help facilitate the discussion. Sign up at second class.

 

Project: Conference paper or other creative academic work (50%): You will complete a creative academic project on a topic of your choice that relates to themes in the course. This could be a 7.5-page paper for a conference in your field, or another type of project that you discuss with me in advance. The form is open, though it must involve original research (ethnographic, archival, audiovisual, etc.) and infuse ideas, and least two of the texts, from this class, in addition to sources you identify on your own. You will compile an annotated bibliography/filmography (5%) by the middle of the quarter. You are of course welcome to use materials in languages other than English, though your project must be in English. You will workshop these projects in class (10%), and have a chance to incorporate feedback before final submission (30%).

 

Grading and Evaluation

In-class discussion                                                     10%

‘Bring your image’ reading responses                       30%

Leading discussion                                                     10%

Conference paper/creative academic project           50%    

            Abstract                                                 5%

            Annotated bibliography/filmography   5%

Workshop presentation                       10%

Submitted work                                   30%

 

Class Practice

Discussion: Vibrant discussion is a goal for this class. I value generosity to each other and to the texts; critical engagement and questioning; and creativity. I hope you view this course as a temporary community—one based on shared journey in the class, but on different experiences of that journey, and different knowledges and histories that we bring to the room. We can create a community by listening to views other than our own with an open mind, trying to understand and appreciate another person’s point of view, and articulating our own point of view using direct communication. Being conscious of not monopolizing dialogue and/or interrupting will help create this community as well.

 

Some ground rules:

  • Assume a partial perspective: you might miss things that others see, and see things that others miss.
  • Your own viewpoint is important—share it. It will enrich others.
  • Others’ viewpoints are important—listen and be present.
  • Ask questions when you don’t understand something.
  • Disagreement can be constructive, but disrespect is not. Demeaning or discriminatory conduct is not tolerated.

 

Phones and Computers: Please turn phones off before coming to class. Tell me in advance if you need your phone on for some reason. Warning: If your computer use is distracting to me or to your fellow students I will ask you to shut it down, which is disruptive and potentially uncomfortable. Best avoided! Please be respectful of class space.

 

Email: I receive a large volume of email. I will do my best to reply within 48 hours, Monday-Friday. It helps if your emails are brief, polite, and to the point with clear subject headers. Substantive questions are for office hours. I do not accept papers and other assignments over email; these must be submitted digitally on Canvas.

 

Accessibility: If you have a disability or need accommodations for note-taking or any other aspect of your coursework, do not hesitate to let me know. The Disability Resources for Students Office (DRS): 448 Schmitz, Box 355839, (206) 543-8924, (TTY) 543-8925, uwdss@u.washington.edu.

 

Plagiarism: Don’t do it! For further information, please see the university policy on academic honesty https://depts.washington.edu/grading/pdf/AcademicResponsibility.pdf. The purpose of this course is to help students become critical and independent thinkers. Original thoughts and ideas will be highly valued, and students are expected to treat the work of others similarly.

 

UW Resources

Southeast Asia Studies Librarian: Judith Henchy, judithh@uw.edu, Suzzallo Library

Anthropology Librarian: Anne Davis, adavey@uw.edu, Odegaard Undergraduate Library

JSIS Writing Center: https://depts.washington.edu/pswrite/

Samuel E. Kelly Ethnic Cultural Center (ECC): http://depts.washington.edu/ecc/

Student Life: Support in areas of life outside the classroom: http://studentlife.washington.edu/  

Counseling Center: Free counseling resources: http://counseling.uw.edu/

 

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ANTH 569 Special Topics in Sociocultural Anthropology

Visuality in and out of Southeast Asia

 

*This is a living document. Course readings and schedule subject to change*

 

Texts to purchase

  1. Panh, Rithy. 2014. The missing picture. Color, 92 minutes. Catherine Dussart Productions/Arte France/Bophana Production. Strand Releasing.
  2. Strassler, Karen. 2020. Demanding images: Democracy, mediation, and the image-event in Indonesia. Durham: Duke University Press. 
  3. Klima, Alan. 2012. The funeral casino: Meditation, massacre, and exchange with the dead in Thailand. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

The following dvds will be on reserve at UW Libraries.

  1. DVD STRAN 054 The missing picture, Rithy Panh (with Eng subs)
  2. DVD FRF 080 S-21: The Khmer Rouge killing machine (with Eng subs)
  3. DVD STRAN 035 Uncle Boonmee who can recall his past lives, Apichatpong Weerasethakul

 

Articles are available via Canvas as links to UW Library holdings or to pdfs in the Files section.

 

 

Week 1: Introductions, orientations, colonial phantasms

 

Mon 30 March

Welcome, introduction to the course and to each other, review syllabus.

 

Theft: “Dancing at the Met for Cambodia’s ‘blood statues’”. Brazen. https://youtu.be/3blxDos7P3U?si=BvlqjSPyH6my5ZGv

Reappropriating and reworking tradition: Graffiti artist Fonki

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/world/asia/fonki-graffiti-cambodia-angkor-wat.html

 

 

Wed 1 Apr

Ordering space and race—libraries, colonial expositions

 

Read / view

Baicy, Caroline. 2022. Scattered archives: The Philippine exhibit and the Igorot village at AYPE, 1909. Online lecture, UW Center for Southeast Asia & its Diasporas (CSEAD): https://youtu.be/osrm1EcScwk?si=FomSA5jTcB0a8F7e

Nguyen, Cindy. 2026. Bibliotactics: Libraries and the colonial public in Vietnam. Oakland: University of California Press. [Chapter 2 ‘To be in public’ pp. 56-99; Introduction is optional]

Norindr, Panivong. 1996. Phantasmatic Indochina: French colonial ideology in architecture, film, and literature. Durham: Duke University Press. [Ch 1 ‘Representing Indochina’; Ch 2 ‘Unruly natives’ is optional]

 

Special event

*Thursday 2 April Prof. Cindy Nguyen (UCLA) will give a public lecture on Bibliotactics*

1:30 – 3:00 pm Peterson Room, Allen Library

 

Supplemental

On Colonial theft and struggle for postcolonial repatriation

Brazen. 2024. Dynamite Doug. Podcast.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dynamite-doug/id1672649131

https://dynamitedoug.com

Cheam-Shapiro, Sophiline. 2023. “Met museum kicked me out for praying to my ancestral godsHyperallergic.

 

 

Week 2: Postcolonial visuality – film cultures & identity photos

 

Mon 6 Apr

Post-independence optimism and idealism

 

Reading / viewing

Mbembe, Achille. 2006[2008]. What is postcolonial thinking? Interview with Esprit magazine. Translated by Eurozine. https://www.eurozine.com/what-is-postcolonial-thinking/

Chou, Davy. 2012. Golden slumbers.

 

Wed 8 Apr

Identifying citizens, refracting state images

 

Reading / viewing

Strassler, Karen. 2010. Refracted visions [‘Introduction’ pp. 1-28; Chapter 3 ‘Identifying citizens’ pp. 123-163]

 

Assignment

Bring your image # 1

 

Supplemental

Post-Independence cinema

Lann, Ly. 2024. Voice actor.  27 minutes.

Muan, Ingrid. 2001. Citing Angkor. [selections: Chapter 3 ‘Display’ 184-254; ‘Conclusion’ 475-85].

Ly, Daravuth and Ingrid Muan. 2001. Cultures of independence: An introduction to Cambodian arts and culture in the 1950s and 1960s. Phnom Penh: Reyum.

Ly Bun Yim's film on YouTube: The faithfulness of princess Kong Rey

Tribute to Ly Bun Yim on YouTube

 

Identity cards as technologies of rule

https://visualizingpalestine.org/visual/israeli-id-system-animation/

https://www.freedomarchives.org/Documents/Finder/DOC54_scans/54.PassBook.pdf

 

Vernacular use of id photos

Stock, Emiko. 2019. Archiving the 'difficult to picture'Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia 3(2)

 

On photo

Hien, Nina. 2013. Photo retoucher. In Figures of Southeast Asian modernity. Barker, Harms, and Lindquist, eds. Pp. 67-69. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press.

Pemberton, John. 2009. The ghost in the machine. In Photographies east: The camera and its histories in East and Southeast Asia. Rosalind Morris, ed. Pp. 29-56. Durham: Duke University Press.

 

 

Week 3: diasporic history and critique

 

Mon 13 Apr - Homelands / curated realities

Photographer Poa Houa Her makes work about Hmong communities in the U.S. She explores conventional genres—military portrait, studio portrait, landscape photography, home shrines—and alternative, accessible sites for exhibition and display.

 

Poa Houa Her Gallery page: https://bockleygallery.com/artist/pao-houa-her/

 

Reading / viewing

Her, Pao Houa. 2024. My grandfather turned into a tiger. New York: Aperture.

PhotoBook flip-through. https://youtu.be/O5MeDU9loCw?si=puvVlvZ-RDvK9nno

PhotoBook Club. https://youtu.be/ULACXpdnmME?si=bD_3Lf2YXYZgGLbj

2023 Stephen Fleischman Lectureship with Guggenheim Fellow Pao Houa Her. Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, 25 April. https://youtu.be/1NQe1evLYHU?si=8EEoqGDLFCBmOnfc, 70 minutes.

      Annual lecture. Topics include: her family; Hmong community history; the American War in Laos; genres of portraiture.

Schmelzer, Paul. 2022. Homelands lost, constructed, reimagined: An interview with pao Houa Her. Bockleygallery.com, 12 September. https://bockleygallery.com/pao-houa-her-interview/

Cipolle, Alex V. 2025. ‘This whole other reality’: Pao Houa Her’s photos show the complexity of Hmong diaspora. ChangeMakers Series. MPR News, 13 May. https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/05/13/changemakers-pao-houa-her-photography-captures-hmong-diaspora

 

Supplemental

#MyHistoryMatters with Pao Houa Her. Minnesota Historical Society. https://youtu.be/nqAOn1TcZz4?si=E4z7jF3fhqEcrqft

            Her talks about her photographs in the Hmong elder center in St. Paul, MN.

Pao Her - Attention. Minneapolis Institute of Art. https://youtu.be/sblKVJh0LxE?si=LwlaKAVCi6eocrLJ

Her talks about her photographs of Hmong-American soldiers seeking recognition of their service.

Pao Houa Her: The imaginative landscape. Creative Minds. SJSU Library. https://youtu.be/aWcVxIk3fa4?si=xxPpd6CD1A75zAjo, 108 minutes.

Artist talk around the exhibit, The imaginative landscape, at San José Museum of Art (2025-2026). Interview begins around 00:15:15. Contents include: motivation to become an artist; graduate training; process of making work; family and community history; American War in Laos; art and accessibility; Hmong statelessness. Slide show accompanies the audio. (Note: audio cuts out for about 10 minutes ~ 01:13:00 – 01:25:00.)

Pao Her: Artist profile. Minneapolis Institute of Art. https://youtu.be/X9iyNWkGTu4?si=rrNAeDkjqMy6eFEK

            More context for Attention series and other projects.

Paj qaum ntuj / Flowers of the sky

 

Wed 15 Apr

In class

Filmmaker and historian Adrian Alarilla will join us by zoom for screening and discussion of three of his short works. We will watch these shorts together in class.

Pag-uusap+Pagmumuni-muni (Conversations+Musings). 8 minutes.

Queer Transnational Love in the Time of Social Media & Globalization. 19 minutes. 

Afterword to Queer Transnational Love. 3 minutes.

Reading / viewing

Alarilla, Adrian 2021. Unsettling islands: Philippine cinema, migration, and settler colonialism. Pelikula Journal 6: 36-43.

 

Assignment

Bring your image #2

 

Supplemental

Alarilla's website: https://adrianalarilla.com/

(all his films are available for free on his website!)

 

Week 4: Diasporic performance

 

Mon 20 Apr – transnational art and performance

In class

Prof. Emily Hue will join us by zoom.

 

Reading / viewing

Hue, Emily. 2025. Performing vulnerability: Risking art and life in the Burmese diaspora. Seattle: University of Washington press. [selections] https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295753614/performing-vulnerability/

 

Supplemental

Htein Lin gallery page: https://tasneemgallery.com/artist/htlein-lin/

Htein Lin – Escape IKON exhibition page: https://www.ikon-gallery.org/exhibition/htein-lin https://guides.bloombergconnects.org/en-US/guide/ikonGallery/exhibition/992c6586-5d9a-4b9a-abe9-f96b9ee0b39bThis guide has audio clips with the artist and IKON curator, Melanie Pocock.

Ngaosawangjit, Napatsorn. 2025. His absence is, paradoxically, his presence. Time Out Bangkok, 19 September. https://www.timeout.com/bangkok/art/his-absence-is-paradoxically-his-presence

Okay, Ayca. 2024. From incarceration to inspiration: The remarkable artistic journey of Htein Lin. stirworld, 9 March. https://www.stirworld.com/inspire-conversations-from-incarceration-to-inspiration-the-remarkable-artistic-journey-of-htein-lin

Schulze, Martin. 2019. Burmese artist Htein Lin & his powerful hand sculptures. publicdelivery.org, 31 December. https://publicdelivery.org/htein-lin-show-of-hands/

 

Wed 22 Apr – the raced and gendered body, or, “because we refuse to end in violence”

In class

We will watch clips and discuss race, spectacle, pleasure and the body in the work of Anida Yoeu Ali.

We will read and discuss our paper abstracts. [Please submit to Canvas before class!]

 

Reading / viewing

1700% Project (2010)

NPR Interview. “Performance Artist Takes on Islamophobia” with Tema Silk. December 11, 2015

Online lecture, Anida Yoeu Ali. VCA Art Forum: https://youtu.be/Wc8aqOu7u8M?si=fiIY6L-m9Gu2bdV1

“Living Art”: https://youtu.be/1jAPrtARwXs?si=B6HJPTkTQcHeuW5S

Kina, Laura. 2017. The Buddhist Bug: Spanning borders and bodies. 2017. In Queering Contemporary Asian American Art. Edited by Laura Kina and Jan Christian Bernabe. Pp. 185-191. Seattle: University of Washington Press.

https://seattleartmuseum.org/whats-on/exhibitions/anida-yoeu-ali

https://bombmagazine.org/articles/2024/07/01/anida-yoeu-ali-by-jessica-lanay/

 

Assignments

Bring your image #3

Paper abstract due on Canvas.

 

 

Week 5: youth and labor

 

Mon 27 Apr – remaking the city

In-class

Chou, Davy. 2016. Diamond island. Paris: Aurora Films. 99 minutes.

*We will walk to Allen Auditorium to watch Diamond Island on the big screen.*

 

Reading / viewing

Shorts from the Anti-Archive collective

            California dreaming

            New land, broken road

            Cambodia 2099

            Sunrise in my mind

 

Wed 29 Apr – dispossessions – urban, indigenous

Reading / viewing

Neang, Kavich. 2019. Last night I saw you smiling. 77 minutes.

Nam, Sylvia. 2011. Phnom Penh: From the politics of ruin to the possibilities of return.

 

[TBD, if I can access the film: Ly, Polen. 2022. Further and further away. 21 minutes]

 

Assignment

Bring your image #4

 

Special event

*CSEAD Graduate Conference on Friday 1 May* 9 am – 5 pm in THO 317

Keynote: "The B-sides of Unmaking botany: Labor and the archive of the bereaved in the colonial Philippines."

3:30-5 pm, THO 317

 

 

Week 6: Images of terror, missing and false – the work of Rithy Panh

 

Mon 4 May

Reading / viewing

Panh, Rithy. 2002. S21: The Khmer Rouge killing machine. Color, 101 minutes. New York: First Run Features.

Panh, Rithy with Christophe Bataille. 2012. The elimination. John Cullen, trans. New York: Other Press. [selections]

French, Lindsay. 2002. Exhibiting terror. In Truth claims: Representation and human rights. Mark Philip Bradley and Patrice Petro, eds. Pp. 131-155. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

 

Wed 6 May

In class

Panh, Rithy. 2014. The missing picture. Color, 92 minutes. Catherine Dussart Productions/Arte France/Bophana Production. Strand Releasing.

*We will walk to Allen Auditorium to watch The missing picture on the big screen.*

 

 

Reading / viewing

Taussig, Mick. 1989. Terror as usual: Walter Benjamin’s theory of history as a state of siege. Social Text 23: 3-20.

Torchin, Leshu. 2014. Mediation and remediation: La parole filmée in Rithy Panh’s The missing picture (L’image manquante). Film Quarterly 68(1): 32-41.

 

Supplemental

Boyle, Dierdre. 2014. Confronting images of ideology. An interview with Rithy Panh. Cineaste.

Mbembe, Achille. 2003. Necropolitics. Libby Meintjes, trans. Public Culture 15(1): 11-40.

Panh, Rithy and Christophe Bataille. 2013. The missing picture (English voice-over text). Letitia Farris Toussaint, trans. Editions Grasset, Catherine Dussart Productions, and Bophana. Cambodia Law and Policy Journal: 85-118.

 

Assignment

Annotated bibliography due, submitted on Canvas by 3pm.

                       

*get a head start on Funeral Casino, it is dense*

 

 

Week 7: Images of violence in mass media

 

Mon 11 May

Reading / viewing

Rafael, Vicente L. 2022. The sovereign trickster: Death and laughter in the age of Duterte. Durham: Duke University Press. [Chapter 5 ‘Photography and the biopolitics of fear: Witnessing the Philippine Drug War’, pp. 103-130.]

Baicy, Caroline. 2020. Intersecting the historical call for human dignity and visual culture in the Philippines. Verge: Studies in Global Asias 6(1): 18-23.

 

Wed 13 May

Reading / viewing

Klima, Alan. 2012. The funeral casino: Meditation, massacre, and exchange with the dead in Thailand. Princeton: Princeton University Press. [Introduction and Part I ‘The passed’, pp. 1-165]

 

Assignment

Bring your image #5

 

 

Week 8: tradition and performance

 

Mon 18 May

NO CLASS. Instructor traveling.

*use the time to work on your final project*

 

Wed 20 May

In class

Dr. Allan Zheng will join us in class to discuss his work on queer performance and Cambodian classical dance.

 

Reading / viewing

TBD

 

Supplemental

Zheng, Allan. 2024. “Finding Phlauv and the creative power of contemporary Cambodian performance”. Online lecture 24 May, Center for Khmer Studies.

 

 

Week 9: Death, nature, and impermanence

 

Mon 25 May

NO CLASS. Memorial Day Holiday.

 

Wed 27 May

In class

Apichatpong Weerasethakul. 2010. Uncle Boonmee who can recall his past lives. 113 minutes.

*We will walk to Allen Auditorium to watch Uncle Boonmee on the big screen.*

 

Reading / viewing

Klima, Alan. 2012. The funeral casino: Meditation, massacre, and exchange with the dead in Thailand. Princeton: Princeton University Press. [Part II ‘Kamma’, pp. 169-end]

 

Assignment

Bring your image #6

 

Special event

*Saturday 30 May is a memorial event for Prof. Vince Rafael in Kane Hall*

 

Supplemental

Fuhrmann, Arnika. 2016. Ghostly desires: Queer sexuality and vernacular Buddhism in contemporary Thai cinema. Durham: Duke University Press. [Introduction ‘Buddhist sexual contemporaneity’; Chapter Three ‘Tropical malady: Same-sex desire, casualness, and the queering of impermanence in the cinema of Apichatpong Weerasethakul’]

 

 

Week 10: Activism

 

Mon 1 Jun

Reading / viewing

Strassler, Karen. 2020. Demanding images: Democracy, mediation, and the image-event in Indonesia. Durham: Duke University Press. [1st half, pp. 1-130]

 

Wed 3 Jun

Reading / viewing

Strassler, Karen. 2020. Demanding images: Democracy, mediation, and the image-event in Indonesia. Durham: Duke University Press. [2nd half, pp. 131-end]

 

Supplemental

Lee, Doreen. 2011. Images of youth: On the iconography of history and protest in Indonesia. History and Anthropology 22(3): 307 36.

Lee, Doreen. 2013. Anybody can do it: Aesthetic empowerment, urban citizenship, and the naturalization of Indonesian graffiti and street art. City and Society 25(3): 304 27.

Interview with Karen Strassler on images and politics in Indonesia: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/prof-karen-strassler-images-and-politics/id1031451800?i=1000541383193

 

 

Assignment

Workshop projects

 

 

Exam week

 

Assignment

Project due. If text, submit on Canvas. If other format, submit dvd, link to digital file, or hardcopy. Wednesday 10 June is the deadline.

 

 

Class resources

Southeast Asia and Asia

SEAlang Library (dictionary): http://sealang.net/library/

Northern Illinois University Center for Southeast Asian Studies

Northern Illinois University, Southeast Asia Digital Library http://sea.lib.niu.edu/

TLC-Thailand, Laos, Cambodia Studies Association: https://web.sas.upenn.edu/tlc/

Kyoto University Center for Southeast Asian Studies: http://www.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/

New Mandala: http://www.newmandala.org/

Sojourn: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia

positions: asia critique

Journal of Southeast Asian Studies

Journal of Contemporary Asia

Journal of Asian Studies

https://www.mekong-review.com/

 

Khmer Studies

Udaya: Journal of Khmer Studies

Bophana Audiovisual Resource Center: http://bophana.org/

 

Anthropology Journals, Societies, & Blogs

Society for Visual Anthropology: https://www.societyforvisualanthropology.org/

Visual Anthropology Review: https://www.visualanthropologyreview.org/

 https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/15487458

Visual & New Media Review: https://culanth.org/fieldsights/contributed-content/visual-and-new-media-review

VNMR The Screening Room: https://culanth.org/fieldsights/contributed-content/visual-and-new-media-review/the-screening-room

VNMR Con-text-ure: https://culanth.org/fieldsights/contributed-content/visual-and-new-media-review/con-text-ure

Visual Anthropology: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/gvan20/current

Ethnocine: https://www.ethnocine.com/

Entanglements: Experiments in Multimodal Ethnography:

Multimodal Anthropologies section in American Anthropologist

 

Art

Asian American Literary Review

Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia

SaSaBassac

Secret, no more – An expression of humanity: https://www.laomerica.com/about

École Française d’extrême-orient: http://www.efeo.fr/base.php?code=20

 

In/from Seattle

CSEAD’s YouTube page (lectures, performances): https://www.youtube.com/@uwcsead

Henry Art Gallery. Has textiles and a few other objects related to Southeast Asia. You can search the collections online and make a reservation to view objects in person.

https://collections.henryart.org/main.php?module=objects

Seattle Asian Art Museum (SAAM) and Seattle Art Museum (SAM). SAM has digitized many of their collections: https://www.seattleartmuseum.org/art-and-artists/sams-collection

Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience

Frye Gallery

Manuela Insixiengmay. Seattle-based commercial photographer

 

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Students who believe they have experienced civil rights discrimination, harassment, or sexual misconduct are encouraged to contact a Civil Rights Compliance Office Case Manager by making a Civil Rights & Title IX Report. Case managers can provide guidance on available Supportive Measures and Resolution Options.

You can also access these resources directly:

  • Know Your Rights & Resources guide provides information for any member of the UW community who has experienced sexual misconduct.
  • Confidential Advocates offer confidential support and advocacy for UW students and employees impacted by sexual assault, relationship violence, or stalking.
  • Pregnancy & Related Conditions provides information on support and reasonable modifications related to attending class or participating in educational activities if you are pregnant, have experienced a miscarriage or an abortion, are recovering from giving birth, are lactating, or have a related medical condition.

It’s also important to be aware that most employees who become aware of discrimination, harassment, or sexual misconduct involving students are required to share information with the Civil Rights Compliance Office. They may withhold the impacted student’s name if requested.

uw.edu/civilrights

 

Access and accommodations

Your experience in this class is important to me. It is the policy and practice of the University of Washington to create inclusive and accessible learning environments consistent with federal and state law. If you have already established accommodations with Disability Resources for Students (DRS), please activate your accommodations via myDRS so we can discuss how they will be implemented in this course. If you have not yet established services through DRS, but have a temporary health condition or permanent disability that requires accommodations (conditions include but not limited to; mental health, attention-related, learning, vision, hearing, physical or health impacts), contact DRS directly to set up an Access Plan. Contact DRS at disability.uw.edu.

 

 

Catalog Description:
Delineation and analysis of a specific topic or set of related topics in sociocultural anthropology.
Credits:
5.0
Status:
Active
Last updated:
April 19, 2026 - 3:07 pm