ISBN:
978-1-78570-893-0
,
978-1-78570-894-7
Language:
English
Pages:
vi, 250 Seiten
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Illustrationen, Karten
Keywords:
Markt Handel
;
Materielle Kultur
;
Wirtschaft
;
Tausch
;
Altertum
;
Ethnologie
;
Anthropologie
;
Philosophie
;
Mittelalter
;
Neuzeit
;
Geschichte
;
Tagungsbericht
Abstract:
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 things, including them in some contexts, excluding them from others. The contributions to Market as Place and Space address a variety of aspects of markets within the framework of archaeological and anthropological case studies and with a special focus on the indicators of practices attached to the commodities and their valuation.
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction: markets as places : actors, structures and ideologies / Hans P. Hahn -- Of middens and markets : the phenomenology of the market place in the Bronze Age and beyond / Lorenz Rahmstorf -- Dealing with the foreign: the movement of artefacts 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 -- Markets in West Africa : Karl Polanyi, or what sort of social formation / Mahir Saul -- Market thinking : perspectives from Saharan and Atlantic West Africa / Ann B. Stahl -- An economy between the markets: the case of 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.
Note:
This volume was initiated by a conference held in Frankfurt/Main (Germany), ath the Goethe University, and organized by the "Value and Equivalence" research training group. (Umschlagrückseite)
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