Seminar: BA: Anthropology of Financial Life - Details

General information

Course name	Seminar: BA: Anthropology of Financial Life
Course number	BA_SE:W/T
Semester	WiSe 2024/25
Current number of participants	13
Home institute	Ethnologie/Kulturvergleichende Soziologie
Courses type	Seminar in category Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
First date	Monday, 14.10.2024 14:00 - 16:00, Room: (Seminar für Ethnologie/Seminarraum)
Lehrsprache(n)	Deutsch

Lecturers

• Balázs Gosztonyi
• Mathias Krabbe
• Marek Mikus

Rooms and times

(Seminar für Ethnologie/Seminarraum)

Monday: 14:00 - 16:00, weekly (13x)

Fields of study

• Philosophische Fakultät I - Sozialwissenschaften und historische Kulturwissenschaften > Institut für Ethnologie und Philosophie > Ethnologie > Bachelor Ethnologie 60/90

Module assignments

• Ethnologie Ethnologie60, Version of accreditation valid from WS 2019/20 > Pflichtmodule > PHI.07691.01 - Systematische Ethnologie: Wirtschaft/Technologie (SE:W/T) PO2022, valid from SoSe 2023 > Course 1: Course (Vorlesung oder Seminar)
• Ethnologie Ethnologie90, Version of accreditation valid from WS 2019/20 > Pflichtmodule > PHI.07691.01 - Systematische Ethnologie: Wirtschaft/Technologie (SE:W/T) PO2022, valid from SoSe 2023 > Course 1: Course (Vorlesung oder Seminar)

Comment/Description

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.