Anthropology 268
Economic Anthropology
Spring 2018

Lecture Handouts

 

January 24 (W): The Anthropological Study of Economic Life

January 26 (F): What Is the Economy? How Have We Created It? Does It Have a Life of Its Own? (short lecture and discussion)

January 29 (M): Economic Anthropological Perspectives on Structural Violence and Hyperinequality (short lecture and discussion)

January 31 (W): Homo Economicus?

February 2 (F): Substantivist and Formalist Approaches to Analyzing Economic Behavior

February 7 (W): Peasant and Household Modes of Production

February 9 (F): Moral Economies

February 12 (M): Tea Histories: Production and Consumption

February 14 (W): Fair Trade?

February 19 (M): Kula, Potlatch, and Mauss's Theory of the Gift

February 21 (W): Gifts, Commodities, and Gender

February 26 (M): Quiz Show Kula

February 28 (W): The Protestant Ethic

March 2 (F): The Morality of Money

March 19 (M): Economic Development, Globalization, and the Spread of Capitalism

March 21 (W): Dependency and the World System

March 26 (M): Use Value, Exchange Value, and Commodities

March 28 (W): Commodity Fetishism and Transactional Orders

April 6 (F): The Impact of Economic Development on Women

April 9 (M): Women's Resistance to Capitalism

April 16 (M): Socialism, Market Socialism, Gender, and Social Relationships

April 20 (F): Market Practices and Neoliberal Self-Making

April 23 (M): Affective Labor

April 30 (M): Does Wall Street Have Culture?

May 2 (W): Ethnographies of Capitalism

May 7 (M): Economics and Culture in an Age of Neoliberalism

 

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