AN377
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Living in the Material World: Economic Anthropology
Course Subject Code
AN
Course Number
377
Course Long Title
Living in the Material World: Economic Anthropology
Status
Active
Division
Social Sciences
Department
Unit(s)
1
Schedule Type
Block Seminar
Instruction Mode
Traditional
Grade Modes
Letter Grades, S/CR/NC, Audit
Course Attributes
CPGS
Course Description
Examines how people organize their material world to survive and to create meaningful systems of value and exchange. A variety of economic forms - small-scale societies with limited accumulation, gift economics, commodity-based capitalism, and “illicit” networks- are considered from holistic, comparative perspectives. The course concludes with an anthropological critique of colonialism, core-periphery relations, inequality, diverse forms of 'capital,' and globalization.
Courses
AN377
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for:
Required Requisites
One previous cultural anthropology course or consent of instructor.