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Module Name
Module Code
Lecture Hrs
Practical Hrs
Credits
Economic Anthropology& the Study of the Development (Special Retake)
ANTH2101(3)**
3
0
3

Description
Traditionally economists have studied market economies while anthropologists have studied the economic behaviour of people living in societies without them. The division between formalists and substantivists, however, or what the anthropologist Keith Hart describes as the “golden age” of economic anthropology has become irrelevant since much of the non-western world is also developing. In this module, we review the history of economic anthropology and the recent work of anthropologists studying how people are coping with economic transformations in both developing and developed societies. Students taking this module will gain a nuanced understanding of areas overlooked by economists such as the informal economy and an appreciation of foundational economic anthropological concepts such as rational choice theory, moral economy, and exchange theory.
Faculty Department
FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES Department of History and Political Science
Contact Details
Administrative assistant: DILMAHOMED BOCUS Bibi Swaleha
Telephone: 4037400
Email: s.dilmahomed@uom.ac.mu
 

 


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