ANTH 374 - Marx and the Study of Crises and Change

Credits: (3)
This course is intended as an introduction to Marxist and related scholarship. We take social and ecological crises as a starting point for developing an encompassing framework to study change. Students will participate in group projects on contemporary issues and two short papers (4-6 pages) requiring the citation of some basic texts by Marx and Engels on capitalism, history, and consciousness are also required. The relation between theory and practice and the utility of some basic features of dialectics is also stressed.