# Weekly plan of topics and readings #

Ryan Schram and Terry Woronov

1 July 2015

Recommended readings are marked with an asterisk. References for all of the readings can be found in the class [[reading list|reading list]].

|  **Week**|  **Date**|  **Lecture topics**|  **Assignments**|
|  1|  July 27, 29|  Introduction to the class and key ideas|  No tutorial this week|
|  2|  August 3, 5|  Give, receive, reciprocate: The theory of reciprocity. Read: Mauss, Piot, Bohannan* |  See [[http://elearning.sydney.edu.edu|Blackboard]] for the assignment and guide to the readings.|
|  3|  August 10, 12|  Gifts and commodities: The great divide. Read: Christen, Kopytoff, Marx* |  See Blackboard|
|  4|  August 17, 19|  The "world-system." Read: Inda and Rosaldo, Xiang (2007), Schultz and Lavenda* |  See Blackboard|
|  5|  August 24, 26|  The commodity body. Read: Scheper-Hughes, Tsing\*, Silverman* |  See Blackboard|
|  6|  August 31, September 2|  Becoming "global." Read: Dunn|  See Blackboard|
|  7|  Sept. 7, 9|  Morality. Read: Yan|  **Essay due this week. See Blackboard.**|
|  8|  Sept. 14, 16|  Global families. Read: Colen, Masquelier|  See Blackboard|
|  9|  Sept. 21, 23|  Alternate modernities. Read: Brenner|  See Blackboard|
|  --|  Sept. 28|  **Midterm break**| |
|  10|  October 7|  Parallel modernities. Read: Larkin|  See Blackboard|
|  11|  October 12, 14|  Mobility. Read: Ong|  See Blackboard|
|  12|  October 19, 21|  Gender and globalisation. Read: Xiang (2005)|  See Blackboard|
|  13|  October 26, 28|  Review for the exam|  See Blackboard|
|  14|  November 2|  **Reading period**|  No tutorials |
|  15|  November 9|  **Finals week**|  No tutorials |

## A guide to the unit ##

{{page>1002guide}}