Course Description

AN208 Gifts, Exchange and Production in Cross-Cultural Perspective 0.5

Modes of production and exchange in egalitarian and hierarchical societies, with particular emphasis on gift-giving as economic exchange and the symbolic production of social relations and identities, contrasts between gifts and commodities, and the impact of globalization on non-capitalist economies.

Prerequisite: AN101.

Exclusion: AN200*.

DRAFT electronic version updated at 1:45 p.m. January 30, 2003

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