SUBJECT
Anthropology of Economics
lecture + practical
master
3+3
Semester 1
Autumn semester
The aim of the Economic Anthropology course is to introduce students to the unique relationship of economic and social processes in tribal and non-European societies, as well as examination of the non-commodity sectors of societies based on commodity economy. The course assumes a basic, secondary school level understanding of economic and social-historical concepts.
Issues to be discussed are as follows: the system of various production relations, i.e. economic-social and technical-economic relations; tributes and payments in the pre-capitalist systems; economic differences in distribution and exchange; forms and modes of exchange; credit, savings and primitive money; commodity in non-commodity producing societies; production in peasant societies; the main disciplines of consumption and surplus distribution. Examination of the various spheres of social and economic life: social-economic formations from a historical perspective.