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Market as place and space of economic exchange : perspectives from archaeology and anthropology /

In the context of commodification, material culture has particular properties hitherto considered irrelevant or neglected. First, the market is a spatial structure, assigning special properties to the things offered: the goods and commodities. Secondly, the market defines a principle of dealing with...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hahn, Hans Peter (Editor ), Schmitz, Geraldine (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford, United Kingdom ; Havertown, PA, United States : Oxbow Books, 2018.
Edición:Paperback edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. Markets as places : a, structures and ideologies / Hans P. Hahn
  • Part I: Archaeological approaches. Of middens and markets : the phenomenology of the market place in the Bronze Age and beyond / Lorenz Rahmstorf
  • Beyond the market : reflections on the archaeological remains of exchange processes / Laura Picht
  • Dealing with the foreign : the movement of artifacts and values in Bronze Age Europe / Lukas Wiggering
  • Crates and crates of sigillata? The supply of Italic terra sigillata to Roman military camps / Thomas Hahn
  • Built space and consuming place : archaeological research on a medieval market in Tulln, Lower Austria / Ute Scholz
  • The impact of the kula on archaeological interpretation : the case of Lapita shell ornaments / Katherine Szabó
  • Part II: Anthropological and historical approaches. Markets in West Africa : Karl Polanyi, or what sort of social formation /\rMahir Şaul
  • Market thinking : perspectives from Saharan and Atlantic West Africa / Ann B. Stahl
  • An economy between the markets : the case of the central market in Tamale, northern Ghana / Geraldine Schmitz
  • The walking cartographies of the marketplaces of Surat / Nishpriha Thakur
  • Direct sales in the Amazon : precariously mediating regimes of value / Jessica Chelekis
  • Tourists on the Nasara : the ritual ground as a space for commodification in Vanuatu, southwest Pacific / Hugo DeBlock
  • 'It was harder before; we lived by the market' : hopes and fears of a market-free future in East New Britain / Keir Martin.