ANTH 302 - Anthropology of Economic Systems

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Widener University-Main Campus

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This course delves into economic systems in the Third World and also in the West and First World. Using some lecture, but primarily a case study approach, the course explores how each cultural system has a different organizational logic and how that logic affects individual economic decisions and the larger structure of economics. The course also highlights advertising as a symbolic system that functions differently in each culture. This course primarily covers economic systems other than Capitalism (the economics of tribes, of pre-state systems, of feudalism, and of the Oriental state). The class does, however, discuss Capitalism from an anthropological point of view. In viewing cultural systems, students explore the correlation of economic behavior with politics, religion, the creation of status and class, ethnicity, and adaptation to natural environment. Prerequisite: ANTH 105 or permission of instructor. 3 semester hours

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.widener.edu

Phone Number:

(610) 499-4000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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