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Lachlan McGillivray, Indian Trader
Lachlan McGillivray, Indian Trader - Engels | Paperback | 9780820340937 | 416 pagina'sOn the southern colonial frontier-the lands south of the Carolinas from the Savannah to the Mississippi rivers-Indian traders were an essential commercial and political link between Native Americans and European settlers. By following the career of one influential trader from 1736 to 1776, Edward J. Cashin presents a historical perspective of the frontier not as …
Forager-Traders in South and Southeast Asia
Forager-Traders in South and Southeast Asia - Engels | Druk: illustrated edition | Paperback | 9780521016360 | 312 pagina'sIn both South and Southeast Asia, many upland groups make a living - in whole or part - through gathering and hunting, producing not only subsistence goods but commodities destined for regional and even world markets. These forager-traders have had an ambiguous position in ethnographic analysis, variously represented as relics, degraded hunter-gatherers, or recent upstarts. …
Traders and Raiders
Traders and Raiders - Engels | Druk: 1 | Paperback | 9781469629933 | 256 pagina'sThe Colorado River region looms large in the history of the American West, vitally important in the designs and dreams of Euro-Americans since the first Spanish journey up the river in the sixteenth century. But as Natale A. Zappia argues in this expansive study, the Colorado River basin must be understood first as home to …
Traders in Motion
Traders in Motion - Engels | E-book | 9781501721359With essays covering diverse topics, from seafood trade across the Vietnam-China border, to street traders in Hanoi, to gold shops in Ho Chi Minh City, Traders in Motion spans the fields of economic and political anthropology, geography, and sociology to illuminate how Vietnam's rapidly expanding market economy is formed and transformed by everyday interactions among …
Women Traders in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Women Traders in Cross-Cultural Perspective - Engels | Druk: illustrated edition | Paperback | 9780804740531 | 328 pagina'sThis innovative volume studies women as economic, political, and cultural mediators of space, gender, value, and language in informal markets. Drawing on diverse methodologies-multisited fieldwork, linguistic analysis, and archival research-the contributors demonstrate how women move between and knit together household and marketplace activities. This knitting together pivots on how household practices and economies are translated …
The McGillivray and McIntosh Traders
The McGillivray and McIntosh Traders - Engels | Druk: 1 | E-book | 9781603061391In this volume, Amos J. Wright Jr. compiles and presents the source materials relating to the lives and careers of Laughlin McGillivray and Alexander McGillivray. The volume represents tweny years of meticulous detective work, during which the author has ferreted out details previously unknown, has clarified some of the problems raised by previous research, and …
A Fur Trader on the Upper Missouri
A Fur Trader on the Upper Missouri - Engels | Druk: 1 | Hardcover | 9780803244276 | 728 pagina's2018 Dwight L. Smith (ABC-CLIO) Award from the Western History Association A Fur Trader on the Upper Missouri offers the first annotated scholarly edition of Jean-Baptiste Truteau's journal of his voyage on the Missouri River in the central and northern Plains from 1794 to 1796 and of his description of the upper Missouri. This fully …
Patterns of Exchange
Patterns of Exchange - Engels | Paperback | 9780806143545 | 248 pagina'sThe Navajo rugs and textiles that people admire and buy today are the result of many historical influences, particularly the interaction between Navajo weavers and the traders who guided their production and controlled their sale. John Lorenzo Hubbell and other late-nineteenth-century traders were convinced they knew which patterns and colors would appeal to Anglo-American buyers, …
Free Traders
Free Traders - Engels | Hardcover | 9780190635459 | 264 pagina'sToday's global economy was largely established by political events and decisions in the 1980s and 90s, when scores of nations opened up their economies to the forces of globalization. In Free Traders, Malcolm Fairbrother argues that politicians' embrace of globalization was much less motivated by public preferences than by the agendas of businesspeople and other …
From Equality to Inequality
From Equality to Inequality - Engels | Druk: 1 | Hardcover | 9781442642225 | 368 pagina'sThe egalitarian society once enjoyed by the Lanoh hunter-gatherers of Peninsular Malaysia is quickly changing. Throughout a year of ethnographic fieldwork among the Lanoh, Csilla Dallos studied and interpreted social change in order to better understand the processes leading to inequality and the concurrent development of social complexity within a community. From Equality to Inequality …