2024/2025
The Anthropology of Economy and Ethics
Type:
Minor
Delivered by:
Department of History
When:
1, 2 module
Open to:
students of all HSE University campuses
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
5
Contact hours:
76
Course Syllabus
Abstract
Does the economy constitute an autonomous field of relations, driven by the logic of maximising profit or other outcome? If not, what are relations and value systems where it is embedded? Conversely, what kinds of practicalities and pragmatics different systems of value and ethical orientation engender? These are key questions that are asked by economic anthropology and the anthropology of ethics. Both share these concerns as well as some of the key theorists such as Marx, Weber and Foucault. In this course, we examine issues and concepts of these two fields of anthropology.
Learning Objectives
- The minor's course introduces a series of lectures and seminars devoted to the discussion of key conceptual issues related to economic and political anthropology. The aim of this course is to learn core theories related to the topic and to provoke comprehensive discussion in relation to key readings
Expected Learning Outcomes
- A student knows the history of the discipline and subfields
- interprets goals and scope of the discipline
- A student interprets the state of the art in contemporary anthropology
Course Contents
- Expenditure and humanitarian reason
- introduction to social anthropology
- schools of thought in anthropology
- Anthropology since the 1980s.
- Gifts and commodities
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Ingold, T. (2018). Anthropology : Why It Matters. Medford: Polity. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1801558
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Radcliffe-Brown, A. R., & Kuper, A. (2004). The Social Anthropology of Radcliffe-Brown. London: Routledge. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=661115