Overview

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.

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Author:   Hans Peter Hahn ,  Geraldine Schmitz
Publisher:   Oxbow Books
Imprint:   Oxbow Books
ISBN:  

9781785708930

ISBN 10:   1785708937
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   18 April 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Peter F. Bang, The market in context, trade in history: empire, bazaars and archaic consumption Jessica A. Chelekis, Informal debt in Amazonia: Market relationships and the art of collecting payment Hugo DeBlock, Back to my Roots: the ritual ground as a space for commodification in Vanuatu Josué Diaz, The many meanings of the term ‘market’: an approach from the perspective of institutional economics Hans Peter Hahn, Introduction: Markets as places and Catalysts for Exchange Thomas Hahn, Crates and crates of Sigillata? The supply of Roman military camps with Italic Terra Sigillata Keir Martin, ‘It was harder before: we lived by the market’: hopes and fears of a market-free future in East New Britain Laura Picht, Beyond the market: considerations about the archaeological remains of exchange processes Mahir Saul, Markets and Marketplaces in the West Africa: Non-Capitalist Exchange in the 19th Century Geraldine Schmitz, An economy between the markets: the case of Tamale market, Northern Ghana Ute Scholz, Built environment and consuming place: archaeological research on a medieval market in Tulln, Lower Austria Ann B. Stahl, Market thinking: perspectives from Saharan and Atlantic West Africa Katherine Szabo, Lapita shell ornaments as commodities? The impact of the Kula Ring on archaeological interpretations Lukas Wiggering, Dealing with the ‘foreign’: the movement of artefacts in Bronze Age Europe

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Hans P. Hahn is Professor for Anthropology with regional focus on Africa at Goethe University Frankfurt. He spent many years in West Africa (Togo, Ghana, Burkina Faso) doing ethnographic fieldwork on a wide range of themes of rural economies. His research interests are oriented towards material culture, consumption, migration and mobility in non-western societies. He participated in the organization of several exhibitions on human action and materiality. Other ongoing research initiatives are linked with polysemic approaches to material culture studies. Geraldine Schmitz is a Post-Doctoral researcher in the research training group ‘Value and Equivalence’ in the Institut für Ethnologie of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, with special research interests in the anthroplogy and economy of markets, particularly in Ghana.

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