ANT102H5 Lecture Notes - Alan Greenspan, Clifford Geertz, Economic Anthropology

• School: UTM
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANT102H5
• Professor: Andrea Muehlebach

Document Summary

Or can we one study economies as cultural systems. Marketing economies the exchange of goods, services and commodities mediated by money: ownership is private and the goal of transactions are profit. Clifford geertz: suggests that there is more than just one way to be human. Homo economicus one who is just interested in escribe humans as rational and self-interested beings capable of making judgments towards subjectively defined ends (such as accumulation of wealth and resources). The flaws of human nature are such that we cannot change alan. 2 core points: human nature is about self interest, self interest magically transformed greed into the greater good, we address ourselves and not to their or anytones humanity. Anthropologists say that there is just not 1 type of human nature. *economic anthropologists study things like wallstreet to informal and underground economies of the urban poor. Informal economy the production and distribution of legal goods, outside of the normal government regulation.