Dr Andrew Sanchez, KGS 2.09

MSc Social Anthropology, MSc Anthropology and Development, MSc Anthropology of Learning and Cognition, and MSc Law, Anthropology and Society, MSc China in Comparative Perspective, MSc Development Studies, MSc Human Rights, MPA Public and Economic Policy/MPA Public Policy and Management/MPA International Development/MPA European Public and Economic Policy/MPA Public and Social Policy, MSc Regulation and MSc Regulation (Research).

A background in the social sciences, preferably in anthropology.

The anthropological analysis of economic institutions cross-culturally; analysis of the relationship between production and exchange, gifts and commodities, and politics and the economy in a variety of settings.

Indicative list of topics: 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.

Lectures weekly MT, seminars weekly MT.

Students will do presentations during seminars for which they will receive formative feedback. They will also have an opportunity to write tutorial essays on topics from the course which will be formatively assessed.

M Sahlins, Stone Age Economics (1974); J Parry & M Bloch (Eds), Money and the Morality of Exchange (1989); Carrier, James G. (ed), A handbook of Economic Anthropology (2005); Keith Hart, Money in an unequal world (2001). Detailed reading lists are provided at the beginning of the course.

There is a two-hour examination (100%) in the ST.