Seminar: BA: Anthropology of Financial Life - Details

Seminar: BA: Anthropology of Financial Life - Details

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Veranstaltungsname Seminar: BA: Anthropology of Financial Life
Veranstaltungsnummer BA_SE:W/T
Semester WiSe 2024/25
Aktuelle Anzahl der Teilnehmenden 13
Heimateinrichtung Ethnologie/Kulturvergleichende Soziologie
Veranstaltungstyp Seminar in der Kategorie Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
Erster Termin Montag, 14.10.24, 14:00 - 16:00 Uhr Seminar für Ethnologie/Seminarraum
Lehrsprache(n) Deutsch

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Seminar für Ethnologie/Seminarraum

  • Montag, 14:00 - 16:00, Wöchentlich (ab dem 14.10.24)

Kommentar/Beschreibung

This course introduces students to the anthropology of finance, defining finance broadly as the use and management of money and financial instruments and the study of these issues. Anthropological research on finance is relatively little known both within and beyond the discipline. With its elitist nature and foundations in neoclassical economics and mathemat-ics, finance appears positively alien to the anthropological habitus. Despite these appearanc-es, anthropologists, often in a lively dialogue with other disciplines, increasingly employ their theoretical heritage and distinct methodology to make substantial contributions to the much-needed study of both Western and non-Western finance as, first and foremost, forms of social relations and social constructions. The course presents key topics and issues in the anthropology of finance, including: theories of money; financial theories, models and devic-es; ethnographies of financial practices, organizations and communities; moralities and ideo-logies of finance; finance and globalization; financialization; concepts and approaches to risk; central banking; public debt and austerity; household finance; financial derivatives; finance and magic; Islamic finance; and non-Western and colonial forms of finance. It also familiarizes students with the ways in which anthropologists of finance have been drawing on major theoretical and analytical traditions, such as Maussian, Latourian, Marxist or We-berian.
Literaturempfehlung:
Graeber, David. 2011. Debt: The first 5,000 years. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Melville House.
Ortiz, Horacio. 2018. „Finance.“ In The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology, doi: 10.1002/9781118924396.wbiea1645.
Modulleistung: Klausur
Besonderheiten: Der Kurs wird auf Englisch unterrichtet. Alle Studien- und Modul-leistungen werden auf Englisch erbracht.

The course will be held in English. All module requirements are conducted in English.