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.

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