Fall 2020  |  ANTH 8810 Section 001: Topics in Sociocultural Anthropology -- Anthropology of Capitalism (33740)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Repeat Credit Limit:
9 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
Completely Online
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate Student
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/08/2020 - 12/16/2020
Tue 11:10AM - 01:55PM
Off Campus
UMN REMOTE
Enrollment Status:
Closed (21 of 15 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Seminar examines particular aspects of method and/or theory. Topics vary according to student and faculty interests.
Class Notes:
This course is completely online in a synchronous format. The course will meet online at the scheduled times.
Class Description:
Capitalism seems to have triumphed so completely in the past four decades that the question of how to understand, resist, even undermine, ?free markets? and capitalist enterprise is particularly crucial. In this graduate seminar, we will explore some of the diverse strategies that compose an anthropological approach to apprehending capitalism: one that centrally questions the dichotomy of society and culture vs. economy, and one that examines the cosmologies, practices, values, techniques, institutions, flows, and social effects of capitalism. This course is equal parts theory, ethnography, history, and methodology; namely, how multiple approaches and skills are crucial to the analyses of capitalism. We will interrogate key concepts in social scientific approaches to capitalism, from the state to neoliberalism, from finance to posindustrialism. We offer particular scholarly methodologies, case studies, and histories to study capitalism in such a way as to interrogate its contingent conditions of possibility, its embodied formations, and its disruptions and undoings. While a majority of the readings will focus on dominant capitalism in the United States (precisely because the histories, cultural practices, and ideologies of American capitalism have globalizing influence), we will also pay attention to world-making practices and ideologies from multiple global sites.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/33740/1209
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
13 April 2014

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