Lectures on Politics and Economic Life: Lecture 2 - The production of wealth
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First year lectures for students of Social Anthropology and Social and Political Science given by Alan Macfarlane in the University of Cambridge in 2007 and 2008. Filmed by Zilan Wang.
A general framework of production systems, hunting, pastoralism and slash and burn, settled peasantries, industrial societies, and their subdivisions. Ways of making a living. The organization and nature of work. Some advantages and disadvantages of each and reasons for movement from one to another. Hann, chapter 6; Sahlins, chs.2,3; Karl Polanyi, ‘The Economy as Instituted Process’ in Trade and Markets in the Early Empires, eds. Polanyi et al (1958), reprinted in LeClair and Schneider, pp.122-167 (for further support for Polanyi’s views, and two counter-criticisms, see the same, pp. 168-233) |
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| Created: | 2018-03-23 16:43 |
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| Collection: | Politics and Economic Life Lectures |
| Publisher: | University of Cambridge |
| Copyright: | Prof Alan Macfarlane |
| Language: | eng (English) |
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