Courses Handbook 2008 - [ Archived ]

311021 (v.1) Work, Economy, Environment 211


Area: Department of Social Sciences
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 3.0
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
Lecture: 2 x 1 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Syllabus: Work, economy and the transformation of the natural world. Embeddedness of work and economy in kin, gendered, ethnic, class and political relations. Cultural constructions of labour, capital, exchange, and market. New forms of global production. Ethnic and regional capitalisms. Local knowledge. Cross-cultural case studies in relation to India, Malaysia, China and Australia. This unit can be taken in both the Anthropology and History discipline majors.
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
Field of Education: 090303 Anthropology
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Not Categorised
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

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