Mar 28, 2024  
2010-2011 Academic Catalog 
    
2010-2011 Academic Catalog [Published Catalog]

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ANTH 462 - Economic Anthropology


Examination of how anthropology has approached the study of economic practices, ideas and institutions in different cultural contexts.  By following the main theoretical paradigms in economic anthropology, the course will address the cultural assumptions and power dynamics in defining what an economy is and how people go about producing, consuming and exchanging goods, commodities, gifts, services, as well as social relationships.  Ethnographic case studies will explicate the power relations underlying the pursuit of economic lives, the centrality of gender, class, race, kinship and ethnic relations in shaping production, consumption and exchange, and the ramifications of global markets on peoples’ livelihoods and identities. 
Prerequisites
Prerequisites: 9 hours of social sciences and junior or senior standing.
When Offered
Offered in alternate years.
(3 cr.)



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