The syllabus is comprised of books, articles in Readers and online articles.
Required books are purchased at Akademika bookstore or ordered from online booksellers, such as amazon.co.uk. Required books are also available at the University Library (provided the item is held).
Compendia can be purchased at the “Kopiutsalget” on the lower floor of Akademika bookstore. Valid student ID and semester card must be presented on purchasing compendia. If “Kopiutsalget” has sold out of a compendium please contact the department as early as possible in the semester in order that more may be obtained.
Many of the online articles require that you use a computer within the university network. If outside the university network, open your web browser and go to UiO Network services
Books
@ Hann, Chris and Keith Hart (2011): Economic anthropology. Cambridge: Polity; 1 edition (March 28, 2011). Paperback: 208 pages.
@ Holmes, Seth M. (2013): Fresh Fruit; Broken Bodies. Migrant Farmworkers in the United States. Oakland: University of California Press. (202 sider)
Curriculum Articles in Readers / Compendia
Bloch, Maurice and Jonathan Parry: "Introduction: Money and the Morality of Exchange", in Thomas Hylland Eriksen (ed.): Introduction: Sosialantropologiske grunntekster, 1996. Oslo: Ad Notam Gyldendal, pp 455-487 (33 pages).
Dolan, Catherine (2008): "Arbitrating risk through moral values: the case of Kenyan fairtrade", in Geert De Neve, Luetchford Peter, Jeffrey Pratt, Donald C. Wood (eds.) Hidden Hands in the Market: Ethnographies of Fair Trade, Ethical Consumption, and Corporate Social Responsibility. Research in Economic Anthropology, Volume 28. Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp.271-296 (25 pages).
Friedman, Milton and Rose Friedman. “The Power of the Market” (chapter one) of Free to Choose: A Personal Statement. LATER PRINTING edition. San Diego: Mariner Books, 1990 [1980]. 28 pages.
Graeber, David. “The Myth of Barter” (chapter 2) of Debt: The First 5,000 Years. Reprint edition, 2012. BROOKLYN, NY: Melville House, 21 pages.
Kopytoff, Igor: "The Cultural Biography of Things", in A. Appadurai (ed.): The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective, 1986. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp 64-91 (28 pages).
Lien, Marianne: “Between market exchange and friendly favour: An ethnographic Study of advertising exchange”, Sosiologi i dag 4, 1998, pp 43-61 (18 pages).
Malinowski, Bronislaw: "The Essentials of the Kula", in B. Malinowski: Argonauts of the Western Pacific, 1961[1922]. New York: E.P. Dutton, pp 81-104 (24 pages).
Mauss, Marcel: The Gift. The form and reason for exchange in archaic societies. Chapter 1 and 4. London/New York: Routledge classics, 2002 [1950].
Meyer, Birgit: "Commodities and the Power of Prayer: Pentecostalist Attitudes towards Consumption in Contemporary Ghana", in J. Xavier and R. Rosaldo (eds.): The Anthropology of Globalization, 2002. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers Ltd., pp 247-267 (24 pages).
Online articles
Appel, Hannah (2012) "Offshore work: Oil, modularity, and the how of capitalism in Eqatorial Guinea", American Ethnologist, Vol. 39, No. 4, 2012, pp. 692–709 (17 pages). onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Barth, F.: "Economic Spheres in Darfur", in R. Firth (ed.) Themes in Economic Anthropology, 1967. London Tavistock Publications. 20 pages.
Caldeira, Teresa: "Fortified Enclaves: The New Urban Segregation", Public Culture, 8 (2), 1966, pp 303-328 (25 pages). dukejournals.org
Ferguson, James: "Declarations of dependence; Labour, welfare and personhood in Southern Africa", JRAI, 19, 2013, pp 223-242 (19 pages). onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Geissler, P. W.: "Transport to where?'", Journal of Cultural Economy, 4: 1, 2011, pp 45- 64. Taylor & Francis online
Gregory, C. 1982. "The Competing Theories" (chapter one) of Gifts and Commodities. London. Academic Press. 14 pages. HAU-books
Harvey, David. "Freedom’s just another Word…" (chapter one) of A Brief History of Neoliberalism, 2007. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 33 pages.
Ho, Karen 2010. "Finance", in Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology, 2nd Ed. Barnard, Alan, and Jonathan Spencer, eds. Routledge, 5 pages. Google books
Hutchinson, Sharon. “The Cattle of Money and the Cattle of Girls among the Nuer, 1930-83.” American Ethnologist,,19 (2), 1992, pp 294–316 (22 pages). jstor.org
Lazar, Sian (2012) "A desire to formalize work? Comparative trade union strategies in Bolivia and Argentina", Anthropology of Work Review, 33, 2012, pp 15-24 (9 pages). onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Mills, Mary Beth: "Contesting the Margins of Modernity: Women, Migration, and Consumption in Thailand", American Ethnologist, 24(1),1997, pp 37-61 (25 pages). onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Ong, Aihwa 1988. "The Production of Possession: Spirits and the Multinational Corporation in Malaysia", American Ethnologist 15 (1) 28-41 (14 pages). onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Polanyi, Karl (1944 [2001]: The Great Transformation. Boston: Beacon Press: Kap. 4, 5 og 6. online versjon av boka
Schober, Elisabeth: "Between a rock and a stormy Place: From overheating to expulsion in Subic Bay (Philippines)", Ethnos, 21, 2016, pp 1-15 (15 pages). tandfonline.com
Taussig, M. 1980. "The Devil and Commodity Fetishism" (chapter two) of The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America. Chapel Hill. University of North Carolina Press. 27 pages. Stuttgart.de
Tsing, Anna: "Sorting out commodities. How capitalist value is made through gifts", HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 2013, 3(1):21-43. HAU journal.org
Zaloom, Caitlin: "The Productive Life of Risk", Cultural Anthropology, 2004, 19 (3) 365-391 (26 sider). onlinelibrary.wiley.com