Market as place and space of economic exchange : perspectives from archaeology and anthropology / edited by Hans Peter Hahn and Geraldine Schmitz.

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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.

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.-- Provided by publisher.

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