Week 6: Exchange as a social, not economic, fact
Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Required reading: Mauss ([1925] 1990)
Supplemental reading: Piot (1999)
References
Mauss, Marcel. (1925) 1990. “Selections from Introduction, Chapters 1-2, and Conclusion.” In The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies, translated by W. D. Halls, 1–14, 39–46, 78–83. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.
Piot, Charles. 1999. “Exchange: Hierarchies of Value in an Economy of Desire.” In Remotely Global: Village Modernity in West Africa, 52–75. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
ANTH 6916: Culture and development—Key concepts
General info: About this seminar, The practice of social theory, Summary of topics and readings, The key tasks of collaborative editing
Seminars: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | B | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 |
Assignments: Essay, Take-home writing assignment, Weekly reflections, Various contributions to an online, collaborative knowledge base