Seminar: Anthropology of Capitalism - Details

General information

Course name	Seminar: Anthropology of Capitalism
Semester	WS 2010/11
Current number of participants	0
Home institute	Ethnologie/Kulturvergleichende Soziologie
Courses type	Seminar in category Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
First date	Tuesday, 12.10.2010 12:15 - 13:45
Type/Form	SE_II (WirTe)
Participants	Modulleistung: Hausarbeit
Pre-requisites	Studienleistung: wird in der ersten Sitzung bekannt gegeben
Studiengänge (für)	Studienprogramm: Bachelor 90/60 Modul/Kürzel: Sys_II (WirTe)
SWS	2
Miscellanea	Besonderheit: Language of Instruction is English
ECTS points	5

Lehrende

• Olumide Abimbola

Rooms and times

No room preference

Tuesday: 12:15 - 13:45, weekly(14x)

Fields of study

• Philosophische Fakultät I - Sozialwissenschaften und historische Kulturwissenschaften > Institut für Ethnologie und Philosophie > Ethnologie

Comment/Description

Kommentar:
In this seminar we will examine capitalism from the point of view of anthropological theories. This is against the backdrop of the global recession and financial crisis that was initially triggered by the failure of a few American financial institutions. It has been described, both by academics and journalists, as a failure of capitalism. Academic classics such as Karl Marx’s Das Kapital and Karl Polanyi’s The Great Transformation have also gained a new lease of life. In the first part of the seminar, we will read and critique works on the history of capitalism as viewed by Karl Marx, his contemporaries and his followers. This will set the stage for the latter part of the seminar, which will be a discussion of contemporary understandings of capitalism among economic anthropologists and other social scientists.