Trading Cultures
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Author | : Heung Wah Wong |
Publisher | : Transaction Publishers |
Total Pages | : 145 |
Release | : 2015-06-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1626430136 |
This collection of original essays interrogates the nature of intercultural and intra-cultural encounters through anthropological case studies of Asia, Africa, and the Pacific Islands. The chapters show that parties involved in intercultural or intra-cultural encounters, each equipped with their own means and motivated by their own ends, reciprocally engage each other in a dynamic, emergent relationship. Through detailed empirical research, this volume seeks to advance the open question of how we may theorize the cultural interface.
Author | : Siegmar and Lois Muehl |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1993-04-01 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780824814427 |
"Anyone curious about Chinese reflections on their own culture will find this book interesting and informative." --Pacific Affairs
Author | : Philip D. Curtin |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1984-05-25 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780521269315 |
The trade between peoples of differinf cultures, from the ancient world to the commercial revolution.
Author | : Kenneth Pomeranz |
Publisher | : M.E. Sharpe |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780765617088 |
Why are railroad tracks separated by the same four feet, eight inches as ancient Roman roads? How did 19th-century Europeans turn mountains of bird excrement from Peru into mountains of gold? The answers to these tantalizing questions and dozens more will be revealed.
Author | : Jeremy Adelman |
Publisher | : Brepols Publishers |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
The essays in this volume confront stereotypical images of merchants as men, and sometimes women, who stood outside their cultures, beyond history. Ranging across eras, from medieval business practices to modern hucksterism of autobiographical morality tales, the authors of this volume find that merchants cannot be separated from their times. From the (Ottoman) Middle East to the (American) Midwest, the contributors to Trading Cultures emphasize the embeddedness of merchants in geographically and culturally specific contexts. The trading careers reconstructed in this book dwell on mercantile concerns with honor as much as profit, trust as much as truck, and, above all, familial connections as much as individuated enterprise.
Author | : |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2022-01-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004506578 |
The way merchants trade, think about business and represent commerce in art forms define merchant culture. The world between 1500 and 1800 encompassed different merchant cultures that stood alone and in contact with others. Culture, power relations and institutions framed similarities and differences and outlined the global outcome of these exchanges.
Author | : Clara Juncker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Francesca Trivellato |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2014-08-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199379211 |
Although trade connects distant people and regions, bringing cultures closer together through the exchange of material goods and ideas, it has not always led to unity and harmony. From the era of the Crusades to the dawn of colonialism, exploitation and violence characterized many trading ventures, which required vessels and convoys to overcome tremendous technological obstacles and merchants to grapple with strange customs and manners in a foreign environment. Yet despite all odds, experienced traders and licensed brokers, as well as ordinary people, travelers, pilgrims, missionaries, and interlopers across the globe, concocted ways of bartering, securing credit, and establishing relationships with people who did not speak their language, wore different garb, and worshipped other gods. Religion and Trade: Cross-Cultural Exchanges in World History, 1000-1900 focuses on trade across religious boundaries around the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic and Indian Oceans during the second millennium. Written by an international team of scholars, the essays in this volume examine a wide range of commercial exchanges, from first encounters between strangers from different continents to everyday transactions between merchants who lived in the same city yet belonged to diverse groups. In order to broach the intriguing yet surprisingly neglected subject of how the relationship between trade and religion developed historically, the authors consider a number of interrelated questions: When and where was religion invoked explicitly as part of commercial policies? How did religious norms affect the everyday conduct of trade? Why did economic imperatives, political goals, and legal institutions help sustain commercial exchanges across religious barriers in different times and places? When did trade between religious groups give way to more tolerant views of "the other" and when, by contrast, did it coexist with hostile images of those decried as "infidels"? Exploring captivating examples from across the world and spanning the course of the second millennium, this groundbreaking volume sheds light on the political, economic, and juridical underpinnings of cross-cultural trade as it emerged or developed at various times and places, and reflects on the cultural and religious significance of the passage of strange persons and exotic objects across the many frontiers that separated humankind in medieval and early modern times.
Author | : Frederick F. Wherry |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 203 |
Release | : 2013-04-25 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0745656803 |
What are the logics of pricing, and why do some pricing schemes defy standard economic expectations? What explains the different labor market outcomes of people who receive the same training from the same place and who have similar grades? Why do national governments issue statements about the country’s history and personality when developing economic policies, and why are struggles over the images pictured on money so hard fought? This engaging book locates the answers to these and other questions in the cultural logics and dynamics that constitute and guide markets. Using clear prose and illustrative examples, Frederick F. Wherry demystifies what culture is, and how it can be identified both in the way that markets are organized and in the way that people operate within them. The Culture of Markets offers a comprehensive introduction to the puzzles found in studies of markets and to the ways that cultural analyses address those puzzles. The clarity of the arguments will make this a welcome resource for upper-level students of cultural sociology, economic sociology, and business/marketing.
Author | : J. Ford |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2003-08-19 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1403943710 |
Traditional theories suggest that developing countries lack influence in the trade regime. In this text, Jane Ford uses a social theory or constructivist approach to show that developing countries played a critical role in strengthening multilateralism in the World Trade Organization.