This course is compulsory on the BA in Social Anthropology and BSc in Social Anthropology. This course is available on the BA in Anthropology and Law, Exchange Programme for Students in Anthropology (Cape Town), Exchange Programme for Students in Anthropology (Fudan), Exchange Programme for Students in Anthropology (Melbourne) and Exchange Programme for Students in Anthropology (Tokyo). This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students.
This course is compulsory on the BA in Social Anthropology and BSc in Social Anthropology. This course is available on the BA in Anthropology and Law, Exchange Programme for Students in Anthropology (Cape Town), Exchange Programme for Students in Anthropology (Fudan), Exchange Programme for Students in Anthropology (Melbourne) and Exchange Programme for Students in Anthropology (Tokyo). This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students.
10 hours of lectures and 10 hours of classes in the MT. 1 hour of lectures in the ST. This year, some or all of this teaching will be delivered through a combination of virtual lectures, classes and online interactive activities. The contact hours listed above are the minimum expected. This course has a reading week in Week 6 of MT.
Students will be expected to produce 1 piece of coursework in the MT.
A few ethnographies to whet your appetite: Bronislaw Malinowski (1964) Argonauts of the Western Pacific; Marshall Sahlins (1974)?Stone Age Economics; Marcel Mauss (1990 [1925)). The Gift: the form and reason for exchange in archaic societies; Sidney Mintz (1985)?Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History; June Nash (1979) We Eat the Mines and the Mines Eat Us: dependency and exploitation in Bolivia's tin mines; Michael Taussig (1980) The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America; Jonathan Parry (2020) Classes of Labour in a Central Indian Steel Town; Maria Mies (1982) The Lace Makers of Narsapur: Indian Housewives produce for the World Market; Carol Stacks (1974) All Our Kin; Claude Meillassoux (1981) Maidens, Meal and Money: capitalism and the domestic community; Jan Breman (1974) Patronage and Exploitation: changing agrarian relations in South Gujarat India; Alpa Shah, Jens Lerche, Richard Axelby, Brendan Donegan, Dalel Benbabaali, Jayaseelan Raj and Vikramaditya Thakur (2018) Ground Down by Growth: Tribe, Caste, Class and Inequality in 21st Century India; Tania Murray Li (2014) Land's End: Capitalist Relations on the Indigenous Frontier.? A few general overview texts: James G. Carrier and Don Kalb (eds) (2015) Anthropologies of Class: Power, Practice, and Inequality; Richard Wilk and Lisa Cliggett (1996) Economies and Cultures: Foundations of Economic Anthropology; James Carrier (ed) (2005) A Handbook of Economic Anthropology Other general introductory texts: Stephen Gudeman (2001) The Anthropology of Economy; Chris Hann and Keith Hart (2011) Economic Anthropology; Susana Narotzky (1997) New Directions in Economic Anthropology; Jonathan Parry and Maurice Bloch (Eds) (1989),?Money and the Morality of Exchange; Stuart Plattner (ed) (1989) Economic Anthropology; James Carrier (2019) A Research Agenda for Economic Anthropology.
Exam (100%, duration: 2 hours) in the summer exam period.