ANTC19H3: Producing People and Things: Economics and Social Life

This course examines economic arrangements from an anthropological perspective. A key insight to be examined concerns the idea that by engaging in specific acts of production, people produce themselves as particular kinds of human beings. Topics covered include gifts and commodities, consumption, global capitalism and the importance of objects as cultural mediators in colonial and post-colonial encounters.

[ANTB19H3 and ANTB20H3] or [any 4.0 credits]
Social and Behavioural Sciences