ANTH 6080 - Consumption and Material Culture

3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: Anth 2020 or consent of instructor.
Description
This course examines anthropological approaches to material culture and consumption: the practices, relations, and rituals through which things from food and clothing to shell valuables or money become meaningful and are used in the organization of social life. Readings include classic works of anthropology and social theory as well as recent ethnographies of western capitalist, colonial/postcolonial and postsocialist settings.