ANT 552 - Gifts, Goods, and Graft: The Anthropology of Value and Exchange

Graduate standing. (3).

Exploration of diversity of economic systems around the world and through history. Discussion of the relationship of economy and culture, and economy as culture. Critique of capitalism as a cultural and historical phenomena rather than a description of the natural world. Theories of the gift and exchange, the role of economic activity in social reproduction and the creation of groups and persons, and related topics. Not open to students with credit for ANT 352 /INT 352 . Also listed as INT 552. Graded ABCDE. [“”]