Periodic Markets, Daily Markets, and Fairs
Author : Ray Bromley
Publisher :
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 24,92 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Fairs
ISBN :
Author : Ray Bromley
Publisher :
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 24,92 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Fairs
ISBN :
Author : Raj Nath Thakur
Publisher :
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 43,90 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Study with special reference to Bihar, India.
Author : Luuk de Ligt
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 20,7 MB
Release : 2023-01-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9004525572
Author : Hans Peter Hahn
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 22,31 MB
Release : 2018-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1785708961
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.
Author : Christian Myles Rogerson
Publisher :
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 30,33 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Markets
ISBN :
Author : Ram Swaroop Dixit
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 24,97 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9788170222729
Author : L. de Ligt
Publisher : Dutch Monographs on Ancient Hi
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 22,24 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Periodic markets are institutions of crucial importance in all pre-industrial economies. Yet the subject has been given little atten-tion by Roman historians. The aim of this book is to remedy this state of affairs through an empire-wide study of annual, bi-annual, monthly and 'weekly' markets. The method used involves the interpretation of the ancient evidence in terms of economic and anthropo-logical theory and against the background of comparative data. Dr de Ligt starts by demonstrat-ing the continued importance of local and regional fairs throughout the im-perial period. Special attention is devoted to the role of both annual fairs and high-frequency periodic markets in the rural economy. In the second half of the book the scope of the discussion is extended to social and political aspects. Finally, the book addresses such topics as urban resistance towards neighbouring rural markets and the widespread practice of waiving customs duties for the duration of largescale religious festivals.
Author : Gene Cooper
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 21,87 MB
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1136250298
During the early communist period of the 1950s, temple fairs in China were both suppressed and secularized. Temples were closed down by the secular regime and their activities classified as feudal superstition and this process only intensified during the Cultural Revolution when even the surviving secular fairs, devoted exclusively to trade with no religious content of any kind, were suppressed. However, once China embarked on its path of free market reform and openness, secular commodity exchange fairs were again authorized, and sometimes encouraged in the name of political economy as a means of stimulating rural commodity circulation and commerce. This book reveals how once these secular "temple-less temple fairs" were in place, they came to serve not only as venues for the proliferation of a great variety of popular cultural performance genres, but also as sites where a revival or recycling of popular religious symbols, already underway in many parts of China, found familiar and fertile ground in which to spread. Taking this shift in the Chinese state’s attitudes and policy towards temple fairs as its starting point, The Market and Temple Fairs of Rural China shows how state-led economic reforms in the early 1980s created a revival in secular commodity exchange fairs, which were granted both the geographic and metaphoric space to function. In turn, this book presents a comprehensive analysis of the temple fair phenomenon, examining its economic, popular cultural, popular religious and political dimensions and demonstrates the multifaceted significance of the fairs which have played a crucial role in expanding the boundaries of contemporary acceptable popular discourse and expression. Based upon extensive fieldwork, this unique book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Chinese religion, Chinese culture, Chinese history and anthropology.
Author : Nilabja Ghosh
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 24,22 MB
Release : 2013-12-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 8132215729
The proposed book provides an assessment of an important yet controversial policy initiated by the Indian government and governments of several other developing countries. Marketing reforms, it is claimed, can be a crucial answer to solving the problem of rural poverty in agrarian economies where large sections of populace are engaged in low paying agriculture. On a wider front, these reforms could help in providing growth impetus to an economy and even the global economy at large. Yet, the subject of liberalizing agricultural markets is also part of a broad and perhaps a bitter political debate between national and sub-national policy makers and academic discourses in India and other countries. A clearer understanding and a possible resolution of the issues involved will be decidedly useful. The experience of India, one of the largest and most agriculture-dominated economies, will undoubtedly provide valuable lessons not only for steering the domestic economic policy but also for other countries to set their own policy agenda. The book attempts to capture the evolving reality in a large and diverse country and presents an objective evaluation to enable aspiring investors and those in policy making, food business and civil society to make more informed assessment and decision.
Author : Caroline Goodson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 40,39 MB
Release : 2021-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1108802273
Concentrating on a period of social, economic, and political change in the Italian peninsula, Caroline Goodson demonstrates the centrality of food-growing gardens to the cultural lives and economic realities of early medieval cities, and shows how urban gardening transformed Roman ideas and economic structures into new, medieval values.