Persian Exports to Russia from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century

Chenciner, Robert; Magomedkhanov, Magomedkhan M.

doi:10.2307/4299875

Cited by 12 publications

(1 citation statement)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…The past 20 years have seen an increasing interest in research on the evolution of trading communities and their relations with political elite, with a consensus of opinion emerging from studies on traders in the Uruk polities (Hacinebi) (Stein 1999), Bronze Age Babylonia (Lamberg-Karlovsky 1975;Larsen 1977), the classical Greco-Roman world and its periphery Woolf 1992), recent periods in Afroeurasia (Brett 1983;Chenciner and Magomedkhanov 1992;Doherty 1980;Masters 1992;Pitiphat 1992;Wells 1984), and recently in Epiclassic (Hirth 1984(Hirth , 1998 and Classic and Formative Mesoamerican societies (Feinman and Nicholas 2004;Guderjan, et al 1989;McKillop 1989McKillop , 2005; also see comments by Feinman and Winter in Hirth 1998). Looking at the sheer volume of distribution of products in the Valley of Oaxaca, Feinman and Nicholas (2004) argue that redistribution and reciprocity cannot explain nor account for the complexities of pre-Aztec exchange.…”

Section: Archaeology Of Trade: Traders As Agentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Archaeology of Trading Systems, Part 1: Towards a New Trade Synthesis

2008

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

After almost three centuries of investigations into the question of what it means to be human and the historical processes of becoming human, archaeologists have amassed a huge volume of data on prehistoric human interactions. One of the largest data sets available is on the global distribution and exchange of materials and commodities. What still remains insufficiently understood is the precise nature of these interactions and their role in shaping the diverse cultures that make up the human family as we know it. A plethora of theoretical models combined with a multitude of methodological approaches exist to explain one important aspect of human interaction-trade-and its role and place in shaping humanity. We argue that trade parallels political, religious, and social processes as one of the most significant factors to have affected our evolution. Here we review published literature on archaeological approaches to trade, including the primitivist-modernist and substantivist-formalist-Marxist debates. We also discuss economic, historical, and ethnographic research that directly addresses the role of traders and trade in both past and contemporary societies. In keeping with the complexities of interaction between trade and other aspects of human behavior, we suggest moving away from the either/or perspective or strong identification with any particular paradigm and suggest a return to the middle through a combinational approach to the study of trade in past societies.

show abstract