ANTHROP 4SG3 - The Secret of the Gift

3 unit(s)

This course will challenge your understanding of the gift. Is there a pure gift? What is some of the violence underneath the gift development, philanthropy, and so on? How have capitalist economies accumulated a great deficit in their balancing of historical accounts, when there is an immense debt handing over the world, a violent history replicated but hidden in the cleanliness of the present?
Lectures and discussions (three hours); one term
Prerequisite(s): ANTHROP 2F03 or three units of Level III or above Anthropology or permission of the instructor
Antirequisite(s): ANTHROP 4B03, if taken during the Fall term in 2010