(1) Acquaint students with contemporary theoretical approaches 
in anthropology as these pertain to the anthropological study of 
consumption and globalization.

(2) Introduce students to contemporary ethnographic research 
methods, especially multi-sited ethnography and institutional 
ethnography.

(3) Provide students with an overview of contemporary 
ethnographic studies of consumption and globalization.

(4) Encourage students to see linkages between past and present 
processes of commodification and enclosure as these have been 
studied by historians and anthropologists.

(5) Provide an understanding of a range of historical shifts and 
debates regarding the relation between economics and 
civic/social life.

(6) Promote critical thinking skills by encouraging students to 
see links between the causes and consequences of contemporary 
globalization and their own patterns of consumption.

(7) Develop familiarity with a number of key institutions and 
actors (World Bank, IMF) as these impinge on the lives of 
students.

(8) Promote links between learning and civic engagement by 
encouraging students to relate lectures and readings to 
contemporary policy debates.

(1) Anthropology for a New Millennium: The Changing Shape of 
Anthropology

(2) Conceptual Tools for Analyzing Consumption and Globalization
Marx, Weber, and Historical Analyses of Capitalism
Political Economy and World Systems Theory
Modernity and Post-modernity
Post-structuralism
Cultural Studies
Science and technology studies
Post-colonial theory
Political ecology

(3) Defining Globalization

(4) Historical Perspectives on Commodification and Globalization

(5) From Citizens to Consumers: Consumption and Identity

(6) Ethnographies of Consumption

(7) Economics and the Shaping of Contemporary Consciousness

(8) Redefining the Public Good: Neoliberalism and Discourses of 
Economism

(9) Keywords:
Rationality
Cost-Benefit Analysis
Externalities

(10) Key Actors and Institutions:
Corporations
Multilateral Banks: World Bank, IMF and Structural Adjustment
Trade Agreements: WTO, FTAA
Stock Markets
Nation-States
The G-8

(11) Managing Image: The Invisible Hand of Public Relations

(12) The Production of Desire: Advertising and Branding

(13) The New Enclosure Movement: Intellectual Property Rights

(14) Commodity Chains: oil, sugar, coffee

(15) Domains of Commodification and Globalization
Oil, Energy, and the Consequences of Automobility
Industrial Agriculture
Water
Genetically-Modified Organisms
Global Media and the Politics of Representation
Between Metallica and the Grateful Dead: Music Piracy
The Two Sides of the Global Drug Trade: Legal and Illegal
Body Image and the Beauty Myth
The Prison Industry
Commodification of Sports
Corporatizing Education
The Commodification of Death

(16) Critiques and Alternatives
Historical forms of Resistance: Outlaws, Pirates and Poachers
The Anti-Globalization Movement

(17) Bringing Nature, Culture, History, and Politics Back In
Ecological Economics
Post-Autistic Economics