Anthropology of Money
General data
Course ID: | 3700-AL-AM-OG |
Erasmus code / ISCED: |
14.0
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Course title: | Anthropology of Money |
Name in Polish: | Anthropology of Money |
Organizational unit: | Faculty of "Artes Liberales" |
Course groups: |
(in Polish) Przedmioty ogólnouniwersyteckie Wydziału "Artes Liberales" General university courses General university courses in the humanities |
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores): |
(not available)
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Language: | English |
Type of course: | general courses |
Prerequisites (description): | (in Polish) The course is dedicated to graduate students (studenci II stopnia) - Knowledge of English on the B2 level, both written and oral. |
Short description: |
Perhaps, each and every action of our everyday lives has as an economic aspect. How we manage our households, what we buy, how we use our time… The course aims at grasping how people use material world to provide for their living and maintain their social groups. How their economic actions are embedded in non-economic factors: values, ethnicity, religious beliefs, etc. Starting from classical case studies and theories, we will investigate a range of topics: work, production, debt, and – first of all – money. Money – be it a note, a plastic card, or a series of digits encoded on our bank account – serves as a key pointer to crucial factor of our social life: how we understand value and what we do with it. The course will embrace perspectives of different disciplines: social anthropology, philosophy, economics and history. |
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