Anthropology 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Barter, Invisible Hand, Labour Power
25 Feb 2018
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Political economy of media = the relation between, power (politics), wealth (economics), and the means of communication (media) But to understand what political economy of media is, and its different branches of debates, we have to take a historical view and see where its [political economy came from. I. e. rural, peasant societies, farming societies: where people grow or make most of what they need to live (grew food, made clothes, raised animals, built houses, did carpentry) Markets (barter, buying and selling) exist, but not central to life (do it yourself society) Communities are materially poor, and local in scope (born and died in a small radius) What is important to know is that these people had an economic basis (the way of. Landowners and church extract wealth by force, fear and tradition organizing production of goods) that is completely different from what we know today. 3 or 4 centuries ago in europe.
