ANTHRO 242

Economy and Culture

Please note: this is archived course information from 2017 for ANTHRO 242.

Description

Examines ways in which people throughout the world make a living, organise their productive activities, obtain goods and services from others through exchange and appropriate and consume objects. Covers division of labour, similarities and differences between gifts and commodities, concepts of property, types of money and exchange, spheres of exchange and connections between power and material conditions of life.

Availability 2017

Not taught in 2017

Lecturer(s)

Coordinator(s) Dr Mark Busse

Reading/Texts

Recommended Reading

Points

ANTHRO 242: 15 points

Prerequisites

ANTHRO 100 or 30 points in Anthropology

Restrictions

ANTHRO 313