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Gifts, Goods and Money: Comparing currency and circulation systems in past societies (Paperback)
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Gifts, Goods and Money: Comparing currency and circulation systems in past societies (Paperback)
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The papers gathered in this volume explore the economic and social
roles of exchange systems in past societies from a variety of
different perspectives. Based on a broad range of individual case
studies, the authors tackle problems surrounding the identification
of (pre-monetary) currencies in the archaeological record. These
concern the part played by weight measurement systems in their
development, the changing role of objects as they shift between
different spheres of exchange, e.g. from gifts to commodities, as
well as wider issues regarding the role of exchange networks as
agents of social and economic change. Among the specific questions
the papers address is what happens when new objects of value are
introduced into a system, or when existing objects go out of use,
as well as how exchange systems react to events such as crises or
the emergence of new polities and social constellations. One theme
that unites most of the papers is the tension between what is
introduced from the outside and changes that are driven by social
transformations within a given group.
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