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ANTH3653: Economy and Culture
2024 unit information
Economy and Culture provides tools for the understanding of economic activity as both a foundation and an expression of human and more-than-human sociality. It approaches material and cultural practice as inextricably linked in the shaping of the social and explains that linkage through the discussion of ethnographically grounded studies and theories. Practices of exchange and everyday behaviours characterised as irrational and spontaneous, rational and formal, magical and esoteric, or devilish and superstitious, will constitute the focus of this anthropological inquiry into the sociocultural premises of economic behaviour.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Anthropology
| Code | ANTH3653 |
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| Academic unit | Anthropology |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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12 credit points at 2000 level in Anthropology |
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Corequisites:
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None |
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ANTH2653 |
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None |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Understand main debates and conceptual tools in economic anthropology
- LO2. Identify how culture affects economic practices, and how economic practices in turn affects cultural practices.
- LO3. Identify and critique assumptions about contemporary economic life and explore opportunities and challenges for more equitable economic practices
- LO4. Incorporate academic knowledge in everyday life by applying conceptual tools to interpret economic practices
- LO5. Articulate one’s ideas persuasively by integrating empirical description and theoretical analysis
- LO6. Develop teamwork skills through working in small groups
- LO7. Acquire communication skills by providing constructive feedback to peers
- LO8. Learn to listen and incorporate peer feedback so as to improve one’s understanding of the topic
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Semester 2 2024
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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