Institut d'ethnologie - Université de Neuchâtel - Ethnologie générale, anthropologie thématique (2e, 3e) - Semestre d'été 2004 - mardi 10h-12h, Institut d'ethnologie / Université de Berne, en alternance

Money, Gifts and Accounting

Profs. Ellen Hertz, Heinzpeter Znoj

As mentioned in our previous course description, this seminar is devoted to in-depth examination of certain empirical and theoretical questions in economic anthropology. During the first two classes, Ellen Hertz and Heinzpeter Znoj will present their own research, placing it in (self-)critical theoretical perspective. During the following weeks we will examine questions of debt regimes, gift exchange, spheres of exchange, the emergence of currencies, the social construction of markets and price and the configuration of value through accounting practices.
All participants will read all assigned articles. Each participant will present one or two abstracts of one week’s reading. A reader of the assigned articles is available in the libraries of the Institut d’ethnologie in Neuchâtel and the Institut für Ethnologie in Bern.
The missed weeks will be replaced by a one-day workshop at the end of the semester, during which the participants will present a hypothetical research design based on our joint readings and discussions. We hope in this way to encourage original research in the area of economic anthropology in preparation for a colloquium of the SEG/SSE in 2005.

HERTZ, Ellen. 1998 “Introduction” in The Trading Crowd. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p.1-28.

2nd week, 30.3. 2004 (Neuchâtel)

ZNOJ, Heinzpeter. 1998. “Hot money and war debts. transactional regimes in Southwestern Sumatra”. Comparative studies in society and history 40(2), p. 193-222.
[En ligne chez JSTOR: Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0010-4175%28199804%2940%3A2%3C193%3AHMAWDT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Q]

3rd week, 6.4. 2004 (Bern)

Screening of "Kawelka : Ongka's big moka" / prod. and dir. by Charlie Nairn ; with Andrew Strathern (anthropologist) and Pattie Winter (research). Granada TV International, cop. 1974

NIEDERHOFFER Victor. 1997. The education of a speculator. New York: Wiley & Sons (excerpts).

4th week, 13.4. 2004 (Neuchâtel)

THOMAS, Nicholas. 1991. “The permutations of debt: exchange systems in the Pacific”, in Entangled objects: exchange, material culture, and colonialism in the Pacific. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, chapter 2.

PATICO, Jennifer. 2002. “Chocolate and Cognac: gifts and the recognition of social worlds in Post-Soviet Russia”. Ethnos 67(3):345-368.

5th week, 20.4. 2004 (Bern)

HUMPHREY, Caroline. 1991. "'Icebergs', barter, and the mafia in provincial Russia”. Anthropology today 7(2):8-13.
[En ligne chez JSTOR: Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0268-540X%28199104%297%3A2%3C8%3A%27BATMI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-S]

ZELIZER, Viviana. 1994. “The Marking of Money”; in The social meaning of money: pin money, paychecks, poor relief and other currencies. New York: Basic Books, chapter 1.

6th week, 27.4. 2004 (Neuchâtel)

SCHRADER, Heiko. 1994. “Professional moneylenders and the emergence of capitalism in India and Indonesia”. International Sociology 9, p.185-208.

BINSWANGER, Hans Christoph. 1994. Money and magic: a critique of the modern economy in the light of Goethe's Faust. Chicago: Chicago University Press.

7th week, 4.5. 2004 (Bern)

ALEXANDER, Paul. 1992. "What's in a price? trading practices in peasant (and other) markets," in: Roy Dilley (ed.), Contesting markets: analyses of ideology, discourse and practice, p. 79-96. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

WINROTH, Karin. 2003. "Finding the price - on framing procedures among traders and analysts," in Constance International Conference Social Studies of Finance (working papers).
[En ligne à: http://www.uni-konstanz.de/ssf-conference/winroth.pdf]

8th week, 11.5. 2004 (Neuchâtel)

MUNIESA, Fabian. 2000. "Performing prices: the case of price discovery automation in the financial markets" in: Herbert Kalthoff, Richard Rottenburg and Hans-Jürgen Wagener (eds.), Facts and Figures: Economic Representations and Practices, p. 289-312. Marburg: Metropolis. (Economy and Society Yearbook = Jahrbuch Ökonomie und Gesellschaft 16)

LEYSHON, Andrew, THRIFT Nigel. 1996. “Introduction” in: Money/Space: geographies of monetary transformation. London: Routledge. 404 p. (International library of sociology).

9th week, 18.5. 2004 (Bern)

MILLER, Peter. 1998. "The margins of accounting", in: Michel Callon (ed.), The laws of the markets, p. 174-193. London: Blackwell/The Sociological Review. 278 p. (Sociological review monograph)

POTTER, Sulamith Heins, and Jack M. POTTER. 1990. "Maoist society : the production team" in: China's peasants : the anthropology of a revolution, p. 94-128. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 358 p.

10th week, 25.5. 2004 (Neuchâtel)

CALLON, Michel, LATOUR Bruno . 1997. “«Tu ne calculeras pas!» ou comment symétriser le don et le capital”. Revue du MAUSS 9:, p. 45-70.

workshop (date not yet set)