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Auteur(s) : Moreno García, Juan Carlos (1965-....)
Titre(s) : Markets and exchanges in pre-modern and traditional societies [Texte imprimé] / edited by Juan Carlos Moreno García
Publication : Oxford : Oxbow books, 2021
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (VIII-229 p.) : ill., cartes, couv. ill. en coul. ; 25 cm
Collection : Multi-disciplinary approaches to ancient societies
Lien à la collection : Multi-disciplinary approaches to ancient societies
Note(s) : L'ouvrage porte un sous titre de collection : Interpreting ancient Egypt. - Bibliogr.
et notes bibliogr. en fin de contributions
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.0In 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
[4e de couv.]
Sujet(s) : Économie de marché -- Jusqu'à 1500
Commerce -- Jusqu'à 1500
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 1789256119. - ISBN 9781789256116 (rel)
EAN 9781789256116
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb468796588
Notice n° :
FRBNF46879658
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