Economic Anthropology

The American University in Cairo
Cairo, Egypt

Course Format: Classroom | E-learning | Virtual Class | Online/Live | On-site/In-house | Blended | Self-paced

Course Description:

'' Examination of how anthropology has approached the study of economic practices, ideas and institutions in different cultural contexts. By following the main theoretical paradigms in economic anthropology, the course will address the cultural assumptions and power dynamics in defining what an economy is and how people go about producing, consuming and exchanging goods, commodities, gifts, services, as well as social relationships. Ethnographic case studies will explicate the power relations underlying the pursuit of economic lives, the centrality of gender, class, race, kinship and ethnic relations in shaping production, consumption and exchange, and the ramifications of global markets on peoples�livelihoods and identities. ...''

Elements of this syllabus are subject to change.

Phone:20.2.2615.1000, 20.2.2794.2964

School Address/Venue(s):

New Cairo Campus: AUC Avenue, P.O. Box 74 New Cairo 11835, Egypt.

Tahrir Square Campus: 113 Kasr El Aini St., P.O. Box 2511, Cairo, 11511, Egypt.

Jobs & Resumes: Cairo
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