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Dec 06, 2025
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ANTH 5500 - Economic Anthropology
This course provides an overview of key concepts and debates in economic anthropology. The course examines the interrelations between culture, economy and power, with attention to the diversity of economic systems and practices across various societies. The course takes an anthropological approach to the study of economic concepts such as gift and commodity; money, value, and wealth; credit and debt; globalization and development; migration and remittances. Through its ethnographic approach, it trains students to demonstrate critical thinking, curiosity, and reflexivity in their studies of diverse economic systems worldwide.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Students will be able to apply the findings and arguments developed in one cultural context to a case study/ethnography of another cultural context .
- Students will be able to identify and critically discuss their own cultural assumptions and biases in relation to markets, money, technology, industry and time.
- Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the complexity of economic institutions and practices in relation to development, migration and globalization.
- Students will be able to identify and analyze cultural differences in verbal and non-verbal communication across societies with different economic systems and negotiate a shared understanding based on those differences.
- Students will be able to demonstrate, through verbal and non-verbal communications, curiosity and openness about diverse economic systems worldwide and respond empathetically towards cultural groups with different economic values and practices.
- Students will be able to prepare a draft of a publishable article following the conventions and requirements of a targeted academic journal.
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