Anthropology

ANTH225 The Anthropology of Things: Sign, Gift, Commodity, Tool

Examines some approaches used by anthropologists and other thinkers to bring things into focus: as gifts, signs, commodities, and tools. Explores whether, by taking things seriously, anthropologists might learn to be empirical in new ways. Students cannot receive credit for this course and course 196F.

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

Credits

5

Instructor

Judith Habicht Mauche