Dr Andrew Sanchez, KGS. 2.09 (MT), Professor Deborah James, OLD 5.08 and Dr Laura Bear, KGS 3.06 (LT)

This course is compulsory for BA/BSc Social Anthropology students. It is optional for BA Anthropology and Law, BSc Economic History and BSc Human Resource Management and Employment Relations. Also available to General Course students and as an outside option.

Undergraduates taking this course should have completed an introductory course in anthropology unless granted exemption by the course teacher.

The anthropological analysis of economic institutions cross-culturally, their transformation as a result of their incorporation into a wider capitalist market, state policies and development initiatives. The second half of the course addresses the anthropology of globalisation. These themes will be examined in relation to relevant theoretical debates and with reference to selected ethnography.

Indicative lists of topics which may be covered in this course: key concepts and theoretical debates in economic anthropology; the social organization of production and exchange; economic aspects of kinship and gender relations; work and alienation; money as an agent of social change; distinctions between gifts and commodities; theories of consumption; local responses to the transition from peasant to proletarian; the social and political impact of post-Fordism, flexible work regimes and the knowledge economy; transnationalism; new social movements; consumer citizenship; capitalist and state interventions in the environment and local reactions to them; commoditization of bodies and biological citizenship.

Lectures AN227 weekly MT, LT, Classes AN227.A MT, LT.

Students are expected to prepare discussion material for presentation in the classes and are required to write assessment essays.

Anthropology students taking this course will have an opportunity to submit a tutorial essay for this course to their personal tutors. For non-Anthropology students taking this course, a formative essay may be submitted to the course teacher.

M Sahlins, Stone Age Economics (1974); J Parry & M Bloch (Eds), Money and the Morality of Exchange (1989); S Plattner (ed.), Economic Anthropology (1989); J Carrier, A Handbook of Economic Anthropology (2005); J Inda and R Rosaldo (eds) The Anthropology of Globalisation (2007); M Edelman and A Haugerud (eds) The Anthropology of Development and Globalization (2004); JCollier and AOng (eds) Global Assemblages: Technology, Politics and Ethics as Anthropological Problems (2004). This is an indicative reading list: detailed reading lists are provided at the beginning of the course.

A three-hour examination in the ST worth 80%. Two assessed essays (2,000-2,500 words each) one per term (20%).