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
• From a distance
• Mixed

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)