August 31 (W): The Anthropological Study of Economic Life

September 2 (F): Homo Economicus?

September 5 (M): Substantivist and Formalist Approaches to Analyzing Economic Behavior

September 9 (F): The Evolution of Economic Systems

September 12 (M): The Domestic Mode of Production

September 16 (F): The Moral Economy of the Peasant: Are Peasants Moral or Rational? (double lecture)

September 19 (M): Lecture canceled.

September 26 (M): Kula, Potlatch, and Mauss's Theory of the Gift

September 28 (W): Gifts, Commodities, and Gender

October 5 (W): The Protestant Ethic

October 7 (F): The Morality of Money

October 17 (M): Economic Development, Globalization, and the Spread of Capitalism

October 19 (W): Dependency and the World System

October 24 (M): Use Value, Exchange Value, and Commodities

October 26 (W): Commodity Fetishism and Transactional Orders

October 31 (M): The Impact of Economic Development on Women

November 2 (W): Women's Resistance to Capitalism

November 9 (W): The Culture of Poverty

November 11 (F): The Cultural Reproduction of the Working Class

November 16 (W): Do Markets Have Culture?

November 18 (F): Women's Roles in Marketplaces: Does Money Equal Power?

November 28 (M): Consumption: The Vanguard of History?

November 30 (W): Gender and Today's Global Economy

December 5 (M): Economics and Culture in the 21st Century

For more information, contact:  aleshkow@holycross.edu