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Documents orbiting this concept, sorted by signal strength and recency.

• Week 2: The concept of culture and the two anthropologies
• Week 6: Spheres of exchange
• Week 1: What would a new anthropology look like?
• About this class
• Learning from Lisa
• Welcome to the seminar
• Essay, exhibit, and presentation (Research essay)
• Week 4: Culture, the natural environment, and utilitarian explanations
• Week 4: Villagization and African socialism: State power and utopian imagination
• Week 2: The white man's burden
• Week 1: What is anthropology and why should anyone care?
• Week 1: What is anthropology and why should anyone care? (Economic rationality and the reality of society)
• Week 12: Plantations and plots on climate frontiers
• Steering the conversation
• Week 4: Transnational families and global gifts
• Spheres of exchange in comparative and historical perspective
• Brainstorming
• Building an argument
• Editing and rewriting
• Asking a question
• Stating a claim
• In-class feedback activity
• Autoethnographic reflection
• How extensions will work in this class
• Week 1: Fear of a cyborg planet
• Week 3: Culture is not biology
• Week 3: Making the Third World: Truman's Point Four, Third Worldism, and the New International Economic Order
• Week 7: Global gifts
• Week 5: Gifts and commodities
• Week 1: What happened to development?: A snapshot of the state of the world in 2026
• Welcome to Anthrograph
• Week 12: Reparations as a new global politics of inequality
• Week 12: Who is innocent?
• Week 9: Alternatives to egalitarianism
• Week 7: The opposite of rights
• Week 2: Anthropology before and after the liberal settlement
• Week 3: How the nature gets made
• Informal economy
• KEN is a Knowledge ENvironment
• Emile Durkheim
• Max Weber
• Robert K. Merton
• Society
• Week 12: Among many others
• Week 11: In the loop: Humanity as a network effect
• Commodity
• Week 6: Two-way streets: Physical infrastructures, public services, liberal and democratic technocultures
• Week 5: Our ecologies, ourselves: Food, nutrition, and health as hybrid objects
• Week 3: Spheres of exchange, in comparative and historical perspective
• Week 2: Gifts, commodities, and spheres of exchange
• Thomas Kuhn
• How to cite sources
• Pangloss
• Kula
• Reciprocity
• Weekly writing assignments
• In-class presentation