Rajan Gurukkal
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- April 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780199460854
- eISBN:
- 9780199086382
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199460854.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, Economic History
The chapter analyses the nature, modes, and forms of exchange against the character of the social formation of early northern India in general and the Deccan and the Tamil region in particular. It ...
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The chapter analyses the nature, modes, and forms of exchange against the character of the social formation of early northern India in general and the Deccan and the Tamil region in particular. It provides an overview of the overland exchange networks of the Mauryan Empire, the subsequent situation of the Deccan, and a detailed analysis of the forms of exchange, coins, currency, and nature of markets of the Tamil region. It does a comparative study of the contrasting political economies of Rome and peninsular India on the one side and of the Roman Britain and the Tamil chiefdoms on the other. At the end, it examines whether overseas commerce has any impact on the political economy of the peninsular India, particularly the Tamil south.Less
The chapter analyses the nature, modes, and forms of exchange against the character of the social formation of early northern India in general and the Deccan and the Tamil region in particular. It provides an overview of the overland exchange networks of the Mauryan Empire, the subsequent situation of the Deccan, and a detailed analysis of the forms of exchange, coins, currency, and nature of markets of the Tamil region. It does a comparative study of the contrasting political economies of Rome and peninsular India on the one side and of the Roman Britain and the Tamil chiefdoms on the other. At the end, it examines whether overseas commerce has any impact on the political economy of the peninsular India, particularly the Tamil south.
Rajan Gurukkal
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- April 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780199460854
- eISBN:
- 9780199086382
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199460854.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, Economic History
The chapter discusses theoretical preliminaries of the study and states its methodology. Critical political economy and the theory of social formation besides the relevant concepts of economic ...
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The chapter discusses theoretical preliminaries of the study and states its methodology. Critical political economy and the theory of social formation besides the relevant concepts of economic anthropology constitute the theoretical part. A discussion of critical social theory of exchange relations in general and trade in particular forms the central component. What it seeks to underline is that one can study exchange relations effectively only by understanding the interconnection between the nature of social organization and form of exchange. It ends by stating that this homology between the form of exchange and the social formation, together with insights of theories in economic anthropology, constitutes the principal framework of comprehension and the hermeneutic component of methodology.Less
The chapter discusses theoretical preliminaries of the study and states its methodology. Critical political economy and the theory of social formation besides the relevant concepts of economic anthropology constitute the theoretical part. A discussion of critical social theory of exchange relations in general and trade in particular forms the central component. What it seeks to underline is that one can study exchange relations effectively only by understanding the interconnection between the nature of social organization and form of exchange. It ends by stating that this homology between the form of exchange and the social formation, together with insights of theories in economic anthropology, constitutes the principal framework of comprehension and the hermeneutic component of methodology.
Ulla D. Berg
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781479803460
- eISBN:
- 9781479863778
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479803460.001.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Latin American Cultural Anthropology
This book illuminates how transnational communicative practices and forms of exchange produce new forms of kinship and social relations, as well as new forms of self-presentation and belonging for ...
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This book illuminates how transnational communicative practices and forms of exchange produce new forms of kinship and social relations, as well as new forms of self-presentation and belonging for global labor migrants. It shows how migrants create new portrayals of themselves which work both to overcome the class and racial biases that they had faced in their home country, as well as to control the images they share of themselves with others back home. Migrant videos, for example, which document migrants' lives for family back home, are often sanitized to avoid causing worry. This book examines the conditions under which racialized Peruvians of rural and working-class origins leave the central highlands of Peru to migrate to the United States, how they fare, and what constrains their movement and their attempts to maintain meaningful social relations across borders. By exploring the ways in which migration is mediated between the Peruvian Andes and the United States—by documents, money, and images and objects in circulation—this book makes a major contribution to the documentation and theorization of the role of technology in fostering new forms of migrant sociality and subjectivity. In its focus on the forms of sociality and belonging that these mediations enable, the book adds to key anthropological debates about affect, subjectivity, and sociality in today's mobile world. It also makes significant contributions to studies of inequality in Latin America, showcasing the intersection of transnational mobility with structures and processes of exclusion in both national and global contexts.Less
This book illuminates how transnational communicative practices and forms of exchange produce new forms of kinship and social relations, as well as new forms of self-presentation and belonging for global labor migrants. It shows how migrants create new portrayals of themselves which work both to overcome the class and racial biases that they had faced in their home country, as well as to control the images they share of themselves with others back home. Migrant videos, for example, which document migrants' lives for family back home, are often sanitized to avoid causing worry. This book examines the conditions under which racialized Peruvians of rural and working-class origins leave the central highlands of Peru to migrate to the United States, how they fare, and what constrains their movement and their attempts to maintain meaningful social relations across borders. By exploring the ways in which migration is mediated between the Peruvian Andes and the United States—by documents, money, and images and objects in circulation—this book makes a major contribution to the documentation and theorization of the role of technology in fostering new forms of migrant sociality and subjectivity. In its focus on the forms of sociality and belonging that these mediations enable, the book adds to key anthropological debates about affect, subjectivity, and sociality in today's mobile world. It also makes significant contributions to studies of inequality in Latin America, showcasing the intersection of transnational mobility with structures and processes of exclusion in both national and global contexts.
Rajan Gurukkal
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- April 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780199460854
- eISBN:
- 9780199086382
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199460854.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Economic History
The book is a critical rethinking of the nature of the classical eastern Mediterranean exchange relations with the coasts of the Indian subcontinent. It examines in the light of the extant source ...
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The book is a critical rethinking of the nature of the classical eastern Mediterranean exchange relations with the coasts of the Indian subcontinent. It examines in the light of the extant source material and theoretical insights whether the expression ‘Indo-Roman trade’ is tenable. Characterizing the nature of contemporary exchanges in detail, the book maintains that the expression ‘Indo-Roman trade’ is inappropriate. It starts off with the theoretical premise that the term ‘trade’, if applied uniformly to all kinds of transactions in time and place, will lead to many anachronistic correlations, causations, and generalizations about the nature of early forms of exchange. Contemporary Mediterranean exchange of goods from the eastern world was a combination of multiple forms of exchange in which trade was just one and confined to Rome. The management of this ensemble was a heavily collaborative, extensively networked, and document-based enterprise, with precise notions of weights, measures, rates of rent, interest, price and profit accounted in terms of money. It had necessitated a stratified society, aristocracy, state system, and the entailing political economy of demand for luxury goods from far-off lands. Considering that such institutional and social structures were absent in contemporaneous peninsular India, this book dismisses the claims in south Indian historiography that early Tamil chieftains conducted overseas commerce. Neither there existed adequate naval technology to allow merchant bodies to conduct independent overseas trade nor was it necessary.Less
The book is a critical rethinking of the nature of the classical eastern Mediterranean exchange relations with the coasts of the Indian subcontinent. It examines in the light of the extant source material and theoretical insights whether the expression ‘Indo-Roman trade’ is tenable. Characterizing the nature of contemporary exchanges in detail, the book maintains that the expression ‘Indo-Roman trade’ is inappropriate. It starts off with the theoretical premise that the term ‘trade’, if applied uniformly to all kinds of transactions in time and place, will lead to many anachronistic correlations, causations, and generalizations about the nature of early forms of exchange. Contemporary Mediterranean exchange of goods from the eastern world was a combination of multiple forms of exchange in which trade was just one and confined to Rome. The management of this ensemble was a heavily collaborative, extensively networked, and document-based enterprise, with precise notions of weights, measures, rates of rent, interest, price and profit accounted in terms of money. It had necessitated a stratified society, aristocracy, state system, and the entailing political economy of demand for luxury goods from far-off lands. Considering that such institutional and social structures were absent in contemporaneous peninsular India, this book dismisses the claims in south Indian historiography that early Tamil chieftains conducted overseas commerce. Neither there existed adequate naval technology to allow merchant bodies to conduct independent overseas trade nor was it necessary.
