Merchants Markets And Exchange In The Pre Columbian World
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Author | : Kenn Hirth |
Publisher | : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Indians of Central America |
ISBN | : 9780884023869 |
This title examines the structure, scale and complexity of economic systems in the pre-Hispanic Americas, with a focus on the central highlands of Mexico, the Maya Lowlands and the central Andes.
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Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Central America |
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Author | : Kenn Hirth |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2016-07-12 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1107142776 |
The first discussion of Aztec economy to include cross-cultural comparisons with other ancient and premodern societies around the world.
Author | : James D. Tracy |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780521457354 |
This volume examines the rise of the many different trading empires from the end of the Middle Ages to the eighteenth century.
Author | : Juan Carlos Moreno Garcia |
Publisher | : Oxbow Books |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2021-06-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1789256127 |
Markets emerge in recent historical research as important spheres of economic interaction in ancient societies. In the case of ancient Egypt, traditional models imagined an all-encompassing centralized, bureaucratic economy that left practically no place for market transactions, as many surviving documents only described the activities of the royal palace and of huge institutions, mainly temples. Yet scattered references in the sources reveal that markets and traders were crucial actors in the economic life of ancient Egypt. In this perspective, this volume aims to discuss the role of markets, traders and economic interaction (not necessarily organized through markets) and the use of “money” (metals, valuable commodities) in pre-modern societies, based on archaeological, anthropological, and historical evidence. Furthermore, it intends to integrate different perspectives about the social organization of transactions and exchanges and the different forms taken by markets, from meeting places where exchanges operated under ritualized procedures and conventions, to markets in which profit-seeking activities were marginal in respect with other practices that stressed, on the contrary, community collaboration. The book also deals with social forms of pre-modern exchanges in which trust and ethnic solidarity guaranteed the validity of commercial operations in the absence of formal codes of laws or accepted authorities over long distances (trade diasporas, guilds, etc.). Finally, the volume analyzes a critical aspect of small-scale trade and markets, such as the commercialization of agricultural household production and its impact on the peasant economic strategies. In all, the book covers a diversity of topics in which recent research in the fields of economic sociology, archaeology, anthropology, economics, and history proves invaluable in order to analyze the role of Egyptian trade in a broader perspective, as well as to suggest new venues of comparative research, theoretical reflection, and dialogue between Egyptology and social sciences.
Author | : Elizabeth P. Benson |
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Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Social Science |
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Author | : Peter Neal Peregrine |
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Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
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Author | : Eleanor M. King |
Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2015-11-12 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0816532176 |
Trading was the favorite occupation of the Maya, according to early Spanish observers such as Fray Diego de Landa (1566). Yet scholars of the Maya have long dismissed trade—specifically, market exchange—as unimportant. They argue that the Maya subsisted primarily on agriculture, with long-distance trade playing a minor role in a largely non-commercialized economy. The Ancient Maya Marketplace reviews the debate on Maya markets and offers compelling new evidence for the existence and identification of ancient marketplaces in the Maya Lowlands. Its authors rethink the prevailing views about Maya economic organization and offer new perspectives. They attribute the dearth of Maya market research to two factors: persistent assumptions that Maya society and its rainforest environment lacked complexity, and an absence of physical evidence for marketplaces—a problem that plagues market research around the world. Many Mayanists now agree that no site was self-sufficient, and that from the earliest times robust local and regional exchange existed alongside long-distance trade. Contributors to this volume suggest that marketplaces, the physical spaces signifying the presence of a market economy, did not exist for purely economic reasons but served to exchange information and create social ties as well. The Ancient Maya Marketplace offers concrete links between Maya archaeology, ethnohistory, and contemporary cultures. Its in-depth review of current research will help future investigators to recognize and document marketplaces as a long-standing Maya cultural practice. The volume also provides detailed comparative data for premodern societies elsewhere in the world.
Author | : Donald C. Wood |
Publisher | : Emerald Group Publishing |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2017-08-25 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1787432408 |
Volume 37 of REA features eleven original articles organized in four different sections, each focusing on a specific, popular and significant theme in economic anthropology: production, exchange, vending, and tourism.
Author | : Xabier Lamikiz |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0861933060 |
Drawing on a broad range of Spanish, Peruvian and British archival sources, Trade and Trust explores merchants' experience of trusting their agents and correspondents and examines how different factors such as distance, the quality and frequency of commercial information, legal frameworks and ethnicity affected their ability to rely on their colleagues. Whilst overseas trade has always been a risky undertaking, this book reveals how merchants sought to minimise losses by forging strong bonds of interpersonal trust amongst a range of employees, partners and clients. --Book Jacket.