SUBJECT

Title

Anthropology of Economics

Type of instruction

lecture + practical

Level

master

Part of degree program
Credits

3+3

Recommended in

Semester 1

Typically offered in

Autumn semester

Course description

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.