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Anthropology of Money
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:4.00
Study Course Accepted:20.03.2024 08:45:53
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | KSK_251 | LQF level: | Level 7 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Sociology; Social Anthropology | Target Audience: | Social Anthropology | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Andris Šuvajevs | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf rsu[pnkts]lv | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 6 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 12 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 6 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 12 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 24 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Basic knowledge of anthropology. | ||||||||
| Objective: | To develop a historical and analytical perspective on the different forms, functions and meanings of money. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Introduction: Two Histories of Money | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 2 | The Origins of Commercial Society; Violent and Religious Aspects in the History of Money. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 3 | Money as a Debt | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 4 | Money as a Debt II | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 5 | Modern Monetary Theory, Modern Financial Systems and the Metaphysics of Money. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 6 | Researching Money in Latvia | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Literature study; reflection and final essay. In order to evaluate the quality of the study course as a whole, the student must fill out the study course evaluation questionnaire on the Student Portal. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | 1. Participation in seminars – 20%; 2. Reflection on a book – 30%; 3. Exam essay – 50%. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | To recognise and describe the historical origins and role of money in different types of societies. To recognise and describe the social dimension of money and its influence on the formation of political and religious structures. | ||||||||
| Skills: | To analyse and evaluate theoretical and popular discourses on money from an anthropological perspective. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | To critically evaluate popular discourses on money and financial systems from an anthropological perspective. To articulate and justify this criticism. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Polanyi, Karl. 2001. The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time. New York: Farrar and Rinehart. Akceptējams: hrestomātisks nozares teksts. (Arī ārvalstu studentiem). | ||||||||
| 2 | Bohannan, P. 1955. Some Principles of Exchange and Investment among the Tiv. American Anthropologist. 57 (1): 60-70. Izdevums akceptējams: hrestomātisks nozares teksts. | ||||||||
| 3 | Lazzarato, M. 2012. The Making of the Indebted Man: an Essay on the Neoliberal Condition. MIT Press. (Arī ārvalstu studentiem). | ||||||||
| 4 | Mann, B. 2003. Republic of Debtors: Bankruptcy in the Age of American Independence. Harvard University Press. (Arī ārvalstu studentiem). | ||||||||
| 5 | Hudson, Michael and Goodhart, Charles. 2008. Could/should Jubilee Debt cancellations be reintroduced today? If not, what alternative measures of debt relief and redistribution might be possible? Economics: The Open Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal, 12 (2008-45): 1-25. Akceptējams izdevums. (Arī ārvalstu studentiem). | ||||||||
| 6 | David Graeber. 2014. Debt, the first 5000 years. (Arī ārvalstu studentiem). | ||||||||
| 7 | Kelton, S. 2020. The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of People’s Economy. PublicAffairs. (Arī ārvalstu studentiem). | ||||||||
| 8 | Wray, R. 2015. Modern Money Theory: A Primer on Macroeconomics for Sovereign Monetary Systems. Palgrave Macmillan, Chapter 1-5. (Arī ārvalstu studentiem). | ||||||||
| 9 | Guyer, Jane. 2008. Prophecy and the Near Future: Thoughts on macroeconomic, evangelical, and punctuated time. American Ethnologist. Vol. 34 No. 3 pp. 409-421. (Arī ārvalstu studentiem). | ||||||||
| 10 | Tsing, Anna. 2013. Sorting out commodities: How capitalist value is made through gifts. HAU. Vol. 3 No. 1 pp.21-43. (Arī ārvalstu studentiem). | ||||||||
