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Course: Economic Anthropology

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Course title Economic Anthropology
Course code KSKA/BEKAN
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminar
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study 2
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 5
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Boukal Tomáš, PhDr. Ph.D.
Course content
unspecified

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming), Work with text (with textbook, with book)
  • Contact teaching - 39 hours per semester
  • Home preparation for classes - 31 hours per semester
  • Preparation of a presentation (report) - 30 hours per semester
  • Independent critical reading - 30 hours per semester
  • Preparation for an exam - 20 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
The objective of the course is to acquire the theoretical knowledge of economic systems and institutions of traditional and modern societies in time as well in space.
Students will be presented to the pros and cons of application of economic patterns and theories of the market on non-market society. The questions of economic discrimination , political power and solution of poverty will be discussed. Students will be able to apply the knowledge in the context of applied anthropology for solution of the poverty and inequality problems.
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Written examination

Compulsory attendance at the lectures. Type of assessment: written exam.
Recommended literature
  • DURKHEIM, É. Společenská dělba práce. Brno: Centrum pro studium demokracie a kultury, 2004.
  • GODELIER, M. The Enigma of the Gift. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.
  • Hann, Chris, Hart, Keith. Economic Anthropology. History, Ethnography, Critique.. Cambridge, 2011.
  • KOTTAK, C. P. Culture and "Economic Development". American Anthropologist 92(3): 723-731, 1990.
  • MATTHEW, R. Psychology and Economics. Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Association, vol. 36(1), pages 11-46, 1998.
  • Mauss, Marcel. Esej o daru, podobě a důvodech směny v archaických společnostech.. Praha, 1999.
  • Soukup, M. Ekonomická antropologie: směňovat, darovat a kupovat.. Praha, 2015.
  • WILK, R. R. Economies and Cultures: Foundations of Economic Anthropology. Westview Press: Boulder, 1996.


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University of Pardubice, date of update: 16.03.2026 23:51. Data created for academic year 2025/2026