AN456 Half Unit
Anthropology of Economy (1): Production and Exchange
This information is for the 2008/09 session.
Teacher responsible
Professor Charles Stafford, A601
Availability
MSc Social Anthropology, MSc Anthropology and Development, MSc Anthropology of Learning and Cognition, and MSc Law, Anthropology and Society, MSc China in Comparative Perspective, MSc Development Studies, MSc Human Rights, MPA Public and Economic Policy/MPA Public Policy and Management, MSc Regulation and MSc Regulation (Research).
Pre-requisites
A background in the social sciences, preferably in anthropology.
Course content
The anthropological analysis of economic institutions cross-culturally; analysis of the relationship between production and exchange, gifts and commodities, and politics and the economy in a variety of settings.
Indicative list of topics: key concepts and theoretical debates in economic anthropology; the social organization of production and exchange; economic aspects of kinship and gender relations; work, creativity and alienation; slavery; economic psychology; monetization as an agent of social change.
Teaching
Lectures weekly MT, seminars weekly MT.
Formative coursework
Students will do presentations during seminars for which they will receive formative feedback. They will also have an opportunity to write tutorial essays on topics from the course which will be formatively assessed.
Assessment
There is a two-hour examination (100%) in the ST.
Indicative reading list
M Sahlins, Stone Age Economics (1974); J Parry & M Bloch (Eds), Money and the Morality of Exchange (1989); M Bloch, Marxism and Anthropology (1983); Carrier, James G. (ed), A handbook of Economic Anthropology (2005); Keith Hart, Money in an unequal world (2001), Stuart Plattner (ed), Economic anthropology (1989). Detailed reading lists are provided at the beginning of the course. ^
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