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Book
Remembering the Neoliberal Turn: Economic Change and Collective Memory in Eastern Europe after 1989

Gökarıksel S., Gontarska O., Hilmar T. et al.

L.: Routledge, 2023.

Article
The Russian Civil War after 100 Years: Within and Beyond the Historiographical Front Lines

Alexander V. Reznik.

Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History. 2024. Vol. 25. No. 3. P. 644-658.

Book chapter
The Stolbovo Treaty and Tracing the Border in Ingria in 1617–1618

Adrian Selin.

In bk.: Sweden, Russia, and the 1617 Peace of Stolbovo. Vol. 14. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2024. P. 99-118.

Working paper
The Image of the Past in Ciro Spontone’s ‘Historia Della Transilvania’

Khvalkov E., Levin F., Кузнецова А. Д.

Working Papers of Humanities. WP. Издательский дом НИУ ВШЭ, 2021

The Anthropology of Economy and Ethics

2024/2025
Academic Year
ENG
Instruction in English
5
ECTS credits
Delivered by:
Department of History
Type:
Minor
When:
1, 2 module

Instructors

Рахманова Лидия Яковлевна

Рахманова Лидия Яковлевна

Course Syllabus

Abstract

Does the economy constitute an autonomous field of relations, driven by the logic of maximising profit or other outcome? If not, what are relations and value systems where it is embedded? Conversely, what kinds of practicalities and pragmatics different systems of value and ethical orientation engender? These are key questions that are asked by economic anthropology and the anthropology of ethics. Both share these concerns as well as some of the key theorists such as Marx, Weber and Foucault. In this course, we examine issues and concepts of these two fields of anthropology.
Learning Objectives

Learning Objectives

  • The minor's course introduces a series of lectures and seminars devoted to the discussion of key conceptual issues related to economic and political anthropology. The aim of this course is to learn core theories related to the topic and to provoke comprehensive discussion in relation to key readings
Expected Learning Outcomes

Expected Learning Outcomes

  • A student knows the history of the discipline and subfields
  • interprets goals and scope of the discipline
  • A student interprets the state of the art in contemporary anthropology
Course Contents

Course Contents

  • Expenditure and humanitarian reason
  • introduction to social anthropology
  • schools of thought in anthropology
  • Anthropology since the 1980s.
  • Gifts and commodities
Assessment Elements

Assessment Elements

  • non-blocking Essays
  • non-blocking Research paper
Interim Assessment

Interim Assessment

  • 2024/2025 2nd module
    0.5 * Essays + 0.5 * Research paper
Bibliography

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

  • Ingold, T. (2018). Anthropology : Why It Matters. Medford: Polity. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1801558

Recommended Additional Bibliography

  • Radcliffe-Brown, A. R., & Kuper, A. (2004). The Social Anthropology of Radcliffe-Brown. London: Routledge. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=661115

Authors

  • SSORINCHAYKOV NIKOLAY VLADIMIROVICH
  • LYUBAVINA SVETLANA VYACHESLAVOVNA