ANTH 049 PZ -Money, Morality and Crisis

Institution: Pitzer

Description: Foreclosure! : The Culture of Financial Collapse - This course offers an introduction to the anthropology of finance and contemporary debt. It examines the works of researchers who explore the lives, concerns, and moralities of those who make these markets, and the complex and messy social interactions that undergird these systems of calculation. It also explores ethnographies of financial collapse, and how individuals in South America, Europe, Africa, and South Asia grapple with sudden changes in economic fortune. Case studies include ethnographies of traders in the USA and Japan, pyramid schemes in Eastern Europe, accounts from the great recession in 2010, and the tax foreclosure crisis in Detroit.