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Residential Anthropology Learning and Teaching Material(ities)
Economic Anthropology
About this Module
This was the first module I created [in 2001] from scratch in my appointment as a Lecturer in Anthropology. It was meant to complement two other existing module on political economy, kinship and gender that run bi-annually along with this one. It was a non-compulsory module.
The original module had 10 tutorials and 10 lectures and when I taught it for the first time as a 20 credit module I found myself with the equivalent of a 30 credit module. My lecture notes were three times larger than the 53 pages of the Full Handout.
This handout is a revised version that I produced after incorporating student feedback over from 2001 to 2007. I remember, back in 2001 I had one tutorial on Marxism and one tutorial on the domestic mode of production and Marshall Shalins. For political departmental reasons I had to take these out of their tutorial section. I was not pleased with their absence so I re-incorporated them in the lectures and I also made a point of including a further lecture on marxists approach to culture in a module that I was writing on gender and sexuality that I started teaching in 2003. If I find the original ones I will incorporate them here on the additional section.
Along with this shift [originally they were both in lecture and tutorial] from 2001 to 2005 I incorporated a lecture based on my own research and my preocupation with commodity exchange and wrapping. In 2005 I also incorporated a complex lecture on space and culture and globalisation. I used many different sources in the building up of classnotes leading towards the Handout, including.... my own notes from when I was a student in a module in 'economic anthropology'. From my experience as a student I had benefited from a lecture on the underside of the economy and I felt I wanted to include some of these elements in my own handout. I went back to my classnotes, readings, and I so much thanked my lecturer back then to having us provided with such a great introduction to it.
Place and Roads
Because I did my research within the area of economic anthropology...read more
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The Full Handout includes the following:
1- Course Description
2- Learning Objectives and Aims
3- Bibliography
4- Internet References
5- Intranet Readings
6- Course Itinerary
7- Assessment
8- Lecture and Tutorial Handouts
9- Revision and Exam Techniques
Lectures:
1- Introduction to economic anthropology
2- Debating the Economy: Economic rational in 'primitive' societies
3- Melanesia according to Mauss and Malinowsk: Hau and Kula
4- The making of a Big Man: Onka's Big Moka
5- Entangled Objects and Poisoned Gifts
6- Th evil money and the dirty market
7- Japanese gifts and the nature of capitalist gift exchange
8- Shopping, consumerism, commodities and wrapping
9- Space, culture and Capitalism
10- Development and globalisation: The transnational and the local
11- The underside of the economy. Hidden markets
Tutorials:
1- Bundles and Grass Skirts: women's wealth
2- Exchange contested: The gender of yams and pigs
3- Money, Morality and Markets
4- Need and Consumption
5- Reserve - Revision Class
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