Lectures on Politics and Economic Life: Lecture 3 - The exchange of wealth

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Lectures on Politics and Economic Life: Lecture 3 - The exchange of wealth

Lecture given by Alan Macfarlane to first year students in Social Anthropology and Social and Political Sciences in 2007 and 2008 and filmed by Zilan Wang The variations in different economic formations, including gifts, barter, reciprocity, commodities, special purpose and general markets. The embedded and dis-embedded market economies and the theories of the transition to capitalism. Hann, chapter 7; Sahlins, chs. 4-6Malinowski, B. Argonauts of the Western Pacific (1922) [essential extracts in LeClair and Schneider, pp.17-40]Mauss, M., The Gift (reprinted 1974)Gregory, C., Gifts and Commodities (1982)Dalton, George, ‘Primitive Money’ and P.Drucker, ‘The Potlatch’ reprinted in Dalton.

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Lecture given by Alan Macfarlane to first year students in Social Anthropology and Social and Political Sciences in 2007 and 2008 and filmed by Zilan Wang The variations in different economic formations, including gifts, barter, reciprocity, commodities, special purpose and general markets. The embedded and dis-embedded market economies and the theories of the transition to capitalism. Hann, chapter 7; Sahlins, chs. 4-6Malinowski, B. Argonauts of the Western Pacific (1922) [essential extracts in LeClair and Schneider, pp.17-40]Mauss, M., The Gift (reprinted 1974)Gregory, C., Gifts and Commodities (1982)Dalton, George, ‘Primitive Money’ and P.Drucker, ‘The Potlatch’ reprinted in Dalton.

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