GIFTS, MARKETS, AND COMMODITIES

Undergraduate

This course considers various economic forms by which societies have made, and continue to make, goods and services available. Students will investigate how different kinds of economies and economic practices that existed in the past are not simply evolutionary forerunners of modern industrial capitalist markets. Moreover, these different kinds of economies and economic practices, though subordinated to contemporary capitalism, persist everywhere today, including PEI. Finally, students will consider the extent to which economic actors and economic behaviour of any sort is thoroughly infused with matters of morality, ethics, politics, emotion, identity, and more. PREREQUISITE: Sociology 1010 or Anthropology 1050 with a minimum grade of 60% Three hours a week