Course Catalog - 2009-2010

     

ANTH 379 - GIFTS AND CONTRACTS

Long Title: GIFTS AND CONTRACTS
Department: Anthropology
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Distribution Group: Distribution Group II
Credit Hours: 3
Description: This course uses philosophical, literary, and economic approaches to examine the role that gifts and contracts play in everyday life and in constructing society and culture. Authors discussed include Derrida, Marx, Mauss, David Lewis, Schelling, Von Neumann, and Morgenstern. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 579.