Syllabus: Political Economy (Anth/Soc 617) (original) (raw)

Off. Hrs: TBA and by appointment, Robinson B 442D Webpage: http://www.academia.edu/janafortier "...a way of organizing production... a set of social relations through which labor is deployed to wrest energy from nature using tools, skills, organization, and knowledge," -Eric Wolf Catalog Description: Human societies have always engaged in complex political relations and economic exchanges with each other. The cultural meanings people create are shaped by, and in turn shape, systems of power. Political economy is the attempt to understand the relationship between politics and economics, at the juncture of local meanings and global histories. This course will review major works of and models from political economy, especially as they relate to social and cultural analysis.