ANTH 238: Economic Anthropology
Spring 2003
T/Th 11:00 - 12:15, Furman 209
Dr. Edward F. Fischer (3-2519, edward.f.fischer@vanderbilt.edu)
Office and hours: T/Th 12:30 - 1:30 (Garland 208) and T/Th 1:30 - 2:30 (Calhoun 006)

Research paper guidelines

9 Jan. (Th) introduction to course

14 Jan. (T) economic anthropology, a brief history
    Wilk, Chapters 1-2

16 Jan. (Th) formal economics
    Wilk, Chapter 3
    Homework Assignment at: http://gametheory.tau.ac.il/Student/default.asp
        course number: CR174
        your id = cr174Uyourmail@vanderbilt.edu
        (e.g. cr174Uted.fischer@vanderbilt.edu)
        initial password: l941748Ur

21 Jan. (T) rethinking rationality
                  a. behavioral economics and experimental designs
                  b. The Original Affluent Society
                        Sahlins, Chapter 1

23 Jan (Th) reciprocity
    Sahlins, Chapters 4-5

28 Jan. (T) production + consumption: sugar
    Mintz, Chapters 1-3
    Peter Redvers-Lee on Adam Smith

30 Jan. (Th) power and world systems
    Mintz, Chapters 4-5

4 Feb. (T) Marx on commodities
    Marx, Karl. [orig. 1867]. Das Kapital. Chapter 1, "Commodities." 
       http://csf.colorado.edu/psn/marx/Archive/1867-C1/Part1/ch01.htm 
   
6 Feb. (Th) alienation and capitalism
    Wilk, Chapter 4
    Alberto Esquit on Eric Wolf

11 Feb. (T) the social life of things
    Kopytoff, Igor. 1986. The Cultural Biography of Things: Commoditization as Process. In The Social Life of Things, Arjun Appadurai (ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 64-91.
    Jeremy Bauer on Max Weber

13 Feb. (Th) post-Fordism
    Kasmir, Sharryn, The Saturn Corporation and the Production of Post-Fordism. manuscript.
    Avery Dickins on Joseph Stiglitz

18 Feb. (T)  SATURN fieldtrip to Spring Hill, TN 

20 Feb. (Th) commodity flows
    Bestor, Theodore C. 2001. Supply-Side Sushi: Commodity, Market, and the Global City. American Anthropologist 103(1): 76-95.               
    Watson, James L. 1997. Introduction: Transnationalism, Localization, and Fast Foods in East Asia. In Golden Arches East: McDonald's in East Asia, James L. Watson (ed.). Stanford: Stanford University Press.
    Tomi Castle on Cardoso
   
25 Feb. (T) Cool hunting + review
    Gladwell, Malcom. 1997. The Coolhunt. The New Yorker 17 March 1997. Available at:
    http://www.gladwell.com/1997/1997_03_17_a_cool.htm

27 Feb. (Th) MIDTERM EXAM

1 - 9 March Spring Break

11 March (T) globalization
    Reader: Chapter 1 (Hannerz)
    The Tennessean on the global hair trade
    Gopnik, Adam. 2000. Display Cases. In The New Gilded Age: The New Yorker Looks at the Culture of Affluence, David Remnick (ed.). New York: Random House.
    Optional: Reader, Introduction
    Optional: Lewellen, Ted C. 2002. Selections from The Anthropology of Globalization, available at:
    http://oncampus.richmond.edu/~tlewelle/courses/3rdwrld/Globalization.htm
    RESEARCH PAPER 1 DUE--See guidelines

13 March (Th) rethinking culture in a global world
    Reader: Chapter 2 (Appadurai)
    Optional: Chapter 3 (Gupta and Ferguson)

18 March (T) neoliberal capitalism
    Storper, Michael. 2001. Lived Effects of the Contemporary Economy: Globalization, Inequality, and Consumer Society. In Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism, Jean Comaroff and John L. Comaroff (eds). Durham: Duke University Press, pp. 88-124.
    Optional: Comaroff and Comaroff, Millennial Capitalism: First Thoughts on a Second Coming, In Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism, Jean Comaroff and John L. Comaroff (eds). Durham: Duke University Press.

20 March (Th) sex, discipline and gender
    Salzinger, Leslie. 2000. Manufacturing Sexual Subjects: ‘Harassment’, Desire and Discipline on a Maquiladora Shopfloor. Ethnography 1(1):67-92.
    Optional: Reader, Chapter 4 (Freeman)

25 March (T) Globalization in Guatemala
        MEET IN GARLAND 101

27 March (Th) cosmopolitan subjects
    Reader: Chapters 6 (Ferguson) and 9 (Gross, McMurray, and Swendenburg)
        NO CLASS MEETING

1 April (T) The complexities of development
    Reader: Chapters 10 (Friedman) and 12 (Scheper-Hughes)

3 April (Th) Art and Commodities
    Platner, Stuart. 2000. Profit Markets and Art Markets. In Commodities and Globalization: Anthropological Perspectives, Angelique Haugerud, M. Priscilla Stone, and Peter D. Little (eds.). Lanham, ML: Rowan and Littlefied.
    Optional: Reader, Chapter 13 (Michaels)

8 April (T) Coffee, Chocolate and selling authenticity in the late capitalist system
    William Roseberry. 1996. The Rise of Yuppie Coffees and the Reimagination of Class in the United States. American Anthropologist 98 (4) 762-75.
    Terrio, Susan J. 1996. Crafting Grand Cru Chocolates in Contemporary France. American Anthropologist 98(1):67-79.

10 April (Th) Selling Identities: Race, Class, and the Quest for Authenticity in the Late Capitalist Market
    4:20pm, Law School Conference Room   

15 April (T) global dilemmas
        Finnegan, William. 2000. After Seattle. In The New Gilded Age: The New Yorker Looks at the Culture of Affluence, David Remnick (ed.). New York: Random House.
    Giddens, Chapters 1-3
    RESEARCH PAPER 2 DUE (late after 4/22)

17 April (Th) Third Ways
    Giddens, Chapters 4-5

22 April (T) Conceptualizing Globalization + Review
    Reader: Conclusion (Tsing)

28 April (M), 9:00am FINAL EXAM - please bring pens and A&S blue books

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