Contents

Adaptation of people to the environment (hunter-gatherers, cultivating societies) and social consequences of operating procedures over the environment. National parks and sustainable environment management. Gift and counter-gift, exchanges and prestige relationships, the role of money. Transculturality and missionary economics. Famines and globalization. Economic strategies in a precarious situation, notably after a natural disaster.

Required Learning Resources/Tools

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Recommended Learning Resources/Tools

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Other Recommended Reading

Descola, Philippe. 1986. <i style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">La</i> <i style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">Nature domestique : symbolisme et praxis dans l écologie des Achuar</i>. Publié par la Fondation Singer-Polignac. Paris: Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l Homme.<br style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;" />Godelier, Maurice. 1996 (1982). <i style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">La production des grands hommes</i>. <i style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">Pouvoir et domination masculine chez les Baruya de Nouvelle-Guinée</i>. Paris : Fayard.<br style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;" />Moreno Sainz, María Laura. 2007. Les récupérateurs de déchets à Buenos Aires : de l exclusion à l'intégration sociale ?<i style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">Autrepart</i> 43(3): 25-39.<br style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;" />Malinowski, Bronislaw. 1963(1922). <i style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">Les Argonautes du Pacifique occidental</i>, Paris, Gallimard.<br style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;" />Mauss, Marcel. 1999[1923]. Essai sur le don. Forme et raison de l'échange dans les sociétés archaïques. In Mauss, Marcel,<i style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">Sociologie et anthropologie</i>, 143-279. Paris: Quadrige/Presses Universitaires de France.

Mode of delivery

• Face to face

Term 1 Assessment - type

• Presentation and works
• Oral examination
• Quoted exercices
• see comment

Term 1 Assessment - comments

3 tests in class (15 %).<br style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;" />Presence in class (5 %).<br style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;" />Participation au cours (10 %).<br style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;" />Presentation of a reading (20 %) : 10 % oral and 10 % written (synthesis and conclusion of the oral presentation).<br style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;" />Oral examination (45 %) : three questions, 15 minutes of preparation + 15 minutes of exam. 

Term 2 Assessment - type

• N/A

Term 2 Assessment - comments

Not applicable

Term 3 Assessment - type

• Oral examination
• see comment

Term 3 Assessment - comments

Oral examination (50 %) under the same conditions as the first session in case it has been presented by the student. If not, consult the professor.

Resit Assessment - Term 1 (B1BA1) - type

• N/A

Resit Assessment - Term 1 (B1BA1) - Comments

Not applicable

Type of Teaching Activity/Activities

• Cours (cours magistraux; conférences)