Course Description

Anthropology 271a/b Economic Anthropology

A comparative analysis of subsistence and peasant economies with regard to modes of production, systems of distribution and exchange, and the social context of economic action. Additional topics include primitive money, the structure of decision making in non-market economies, and patterns of consumption.

Antirequisite: The former Anthropology 171a/b.
Prerequisite: One 020-099 level course from Administrative Studies, Anthropology, Economics, Geography, History, Political Science, Psychology or Sociology.
3 hours, half course.


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