 | Study programme 2020-2021 | Français | |
| Elements of Economic Anthropology | |||
Learning Activity |
| Code | Lecturer(s) | Associate Lecturer(s) | Subsitute Lecturer(s) et other(s) | Establishment |
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| H-SANT-200 |
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| Language of instruction | Language of assessment | HT(*) | HTPE(*) | HTPS(*) | HR(*) | HD(*) | Term |
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| Français | Français | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Q1 |
| Organisational online arrangements for the end of Q3 2020-2021 assessments (Covid-19) |
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| Description of the modifications to the Q3 2020-2021 assessment procedures (Covid-19) |
| The exam draws on all the lessons teached during Q1, on all the readings and on the documentary (Cf. Moodle). It is divided into 4 opened questions and a closed one (fact or fiction). In the answers, the student will use information from the readings to illustrate their statements. |
Organisational arrangements for the end of Q1 2020-2021 assessments (Covid-19) online or face-to-face (according to assessment schedule)
- Written exam (multiple choice, open questions)
Description of the modifications to the Q1 2020-2021 online assessment procedures (Covid-19) online or face-to-face (according to assessment schedule)
The exam draws on all the lessons teached during Q1, on all the readings and on the documentary (Cf. Moodle). It is divided into 4 opened questions and a closed one (fact or fiction). In the answers, the student will use information from the readings to illustrate their statements.
Content of Learning Activity
5 themes are tackled during the class:
-access to natural resources and to production means
-timetable and proceedings of work processes
-circulation and redistribution of the work products
-modes of consumption and expenditure
- the creation of valor and the commoditization process
They are approached through five lessons:
Lesson 1: Hunter-Gatherers societies: the issue of resources rarity/abundance and of cultural choices
Lesson 2: Farmer Societies: subsistence and cash crop agricultures
Lesson 3: Reciprocity and Market: logic and forms of gift and counter-gift
Lesson 4: Logics halfway between barter, market economy and gift: consumption and expense behaviors
Lesson 5: Cultural objects and commodities, the biography of things, exchange spheres
Required Learning Resources/Tools
Not applicable
Recommended Learning Resources/Tools
Not applicable
Other Recommended Reading
Descola, Philippe. 1986. La Nature domestique : symbolisme et praxis dans l écologie des Achuar. Publié par la Fondation Singer-Polignac. Paris: Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l Homme.
Godelier, Maurice. 1996 (1982). La production des grands hommes. Pouvoir et domination masculine chez les Baruya de Nouvelle-Guinée. Paris : Fayard.
Malinowski, Bronislaw. 1963(1922). Les Argonautes du Pacifique occidental, Paris, Gallimard.
Mauss, Marcel. 1999[1923]. Essai sur le don. Forme et raison de l'échange dans les sociétés archaïques. In Mauss, Marcel,Sociologie et anthropologie, 143-279. Paris: Quadrige/Presses Universitaires de France.
Mode of delivery
- Face to face
Type of Teaching Activity/Activities
- Cours magistraux
Evaluations
The assessment methods of the Learning Activity (AA) are specified in the course description of the corresponding Educational Component (UE)