The Balance of Trade in Southwestern Asia in the Mid-Third Millennium B.C. [and Comments and Reply]

Autor:	Trevor Watkins, Wilhelm G. Solheim, Lucien R. Bäck, Henri J. M. Claessen, Mary V. Stark, Antonio Gilman, Joan Oates, Jim G. Shaffer, Kensaku Hayashi, Akira Ono, Hans J. Nissen, Daniel T. Potts, Christopher L. Hamlin, Philip L. Kohl, C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky, H. D. Sankalia
Rok vydání:	1978
Předmět:	Archeology Civilization History media_common.quotation_subject Interpretation (philosophy) Evolutionary significance Balance of trade Cultural system Ideal (ethics) Prehistory Economy Order (exchange) Anthropology Development economics media_common
Zdroj:	Current Anthropology. 19:463-492
ISSN:	1537-5382 0011-3204
DOI:	10.1086/202136
Popis:	Trade frequently is considered an important and distinct subsystem that is integrated within a prehistoric cultural system. This paper rejects this interpretation and attempts a structural analysis of a specific trading network that existed in southwestern Asia in the mid-3d millennium B.C. in order to uncover the motivational factors and contradictions operative in trading relationships. An ideal dichotomy between sparsely populated, resource-rich highland centers and densely settled lowland cities is proposed, and the evolutionary significance of the relationship that developed between these areas is discussed.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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