Market as Place and Space of Economic Exchange
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- ISBN 9781785708930
- Dimensions: 170 x 240mm
- Publication Date: 18 Apr 2018
- Publisher: Oxbow Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Hans P. Hahn is Professor for Anthropology with regional focus on Africa at Goethe University Frankfurt. He spent many years in West Africa (Togo, Ghana, Burkina Faso) doing ethnographic fieldwork on a wide range of themes of rural economies. His research interests are oriented towards material culture, consumption, migration and mobility in non-western societies. He participated in the organization of several exhibitions on human action and materiality. Other ongoing research initiatives are linked with polysemic approaches to material culture studies. Geraldine Schmitz is a Post-Doctoral researcher in the research training group ‘Value and Equivalence’ in the Institut für Ethnologie of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, with special research interests in the anthroplogy and economy of markets, particularly in Ghana.
