- Inter-faculty Studies in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
- Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Computer Science
- Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Mathematics
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Computer Science
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Mathematics
Anthropology of Money 3700-KON264-AL-OG
We are going to start with classical case studies of economic anthropology: the Kula system of Trobriand Islands and the Potlach at Northwestern coast of Canada. Those examples gave rise to big anthropological theories of value, gift giving, and reciprocity and in general sparked an assumption that those allegedly primitive people in remote places of the world are not that different from allegedly civilized Europeans. Then, we will pass to philosophical foundations of thinking on economic action and money – ranging from Aristotle, through John Locke and Karl Marx, to Georg Simmel. Lastly, we are going to discuss several situations of functioning money and money-like objects in order to understand various contexts of our social life in modern capitalism, such as mortgages or commoditization of love and body. What do we value? What are the origins of money? How does money relate people to each other? And why it drives all of us so crazy? These are some questions we are going to tackle during the course.
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Assessment criteria
- 10 in-class quizzes (80%). The questions in quizzes will pertain to assigned readings and will be signalized to students in advance.
- active participation in the class discussions (20% of the total score). Excellent students might earn extra 5% of points in this respect.
Student can miss maximum two classes without justification. Extensive undocumented absenteeism will result in taking down points from participation part and – in case of more than 4 undocumented absences – will lead to failing the class.
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Information on level of this course, year of study and semester when the course unit is delivered, types and amount of class hours - can be found in course structure diagrams of apropriate study programmes. This course is related to the following study programmes:
- Inter-faculty Studies in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
- Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Computer Science
- Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Mathematics
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Computer Science
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Mathematics
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