Requirements include ethnographic reading, fieldwork, and writing. Topics and themes change yearly. Requirements include ethnographic field work and writing. Enrollment limited to 15. Enrollment restricted to anthropology graduate students.
Material is drawn from scholarly and popular discourses.
An introduction to selected themes in political economy, stressing the work of Marx. Topics include the development of capitalism, colonialism, dependency, world systems, state formation, class consciousness, commodity fetishism, the nature of late capitalism, post-modernism, and the aesthetics of mass culture. Through political economy's interlocutors, raises questions about gender, race and ethnicity, and poststructuralist critiques. Issues such as sexual selection, kin selection, and reproductive success are examined in their historical context. Primate and human evolution serve to illustrate the application of this theoretical framework.