STEPPE NOMADS IN THE EURASIAN TRADE

STEPPE NOMADS IN THE EURASIAN TRADE

The nomads of the Eurasian steppes, semi-deserts, and deserts played an important and multifarious role in regional, interregional transit, and long-distance trade across Eurasia. In ancient and medieval times their role far exceeded their number and economic potential. The specialized and non-autar...

Descripción completa

Guardado en:
Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Khazanov,Anatoly M
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Universidad de Tarapacá. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Jurídicas. Departamento de Antropología 2019
Materias:
Steppe nomads
Eurasian trade
the Silk Road
caravans
Acceso en línea:http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0717-73562019000100085
Etiquetas: Agregar Etiqueta
Sin Etiquetas, Sea el primero en etiquetar este registro!
id oai:scielo:S0717-73562019000100085
record_format dspace
spelling oai:scielo:S0717-735620190001000852019-05-10STEPPE NOMADS IN THE EURASIAN TRADEKhazanov,Anatoly M Steppe nomads Eurasian trade the Silk Road caravans The nomads of the Eurasian steppes, semi-deserts, and deserts played an important and multifarious role in regional, interregional transit, and long-distance trade across Eurasia. In ancient and medieval times their role far exceeded their number and economic potential. The specialized and non-autarchic character of their economy, provoked that the nomads always experienced a need for external agricultural and handicraft products. Besides, successful nomadic states and polities created demand for the international trade in high value foreign goods, and even provided supplies, especially silk, for this trade. Because of undeveloped social division of labor, however, there were no professional traders in any nomadic society. Thus, specialized foreign traders enjoyed a high prestige amongst them. It is, finally, argued that the real importance of the overland Silk Road, that currently has become a quite popular historical adventure, has been greatly exaggerated.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessUniversidad de Tarapacá. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Jurídicas. Departamento de AntropologíaChungará (Arica) v.51 n.1 20192019-03-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0717-73562019000100085en10.4067/S0717-73562019005000302
institution Scielo Chile
collection Scielo Chile
language English
topic Steppe nomads
Eurasian trade
the Silk Road
caravans
spellingShingle Steppe nomads
Eurasian trade
the Silk Road
caravans
Khazanov,Anatoly M
STEPPE NOMADS IN THE EURASIAN TRADE
description The nomads of the Eurasian steppes, semi-deserts, and deserts played an important and multifarious role in regional, interregional transit, and long-distance trade across Eurasia. In ancient and medieval times their role far exceeded their number and economic potential. The specialized and non-autarchic character of their economy, provoked that the nomads always experienced a need for external agricultural and handicraft products. Besides, successful nomadic states and polities created demand for the international trade in high value foreign goods, and even provided supplies, especially silk, for this trade. Because of undeveloped social division of labor, however, there were no professional traders in any nomadic society. Thus, specialized foreign traders enjoyed a high prestige amongst them. It is, finally, argued that the real importance of the overland Silk Road, that currently has become a quite popular historical adventure, has been greatly exaggerated.
author Khazanov,Anatoly M
author_facet Khazanov,Anatoly M
author_sort Khazanov,Anatoly M
title STEPPE NOMADS IN THE EURASIAN TRADE
title_short STEPPE NOMADS IN THE EURASIAN TRADE
title_full STEPPE NOMADS IN THE EURASIAN TRADE
title_fullStr STEPPE NOMADS IN THE EURASIAN TRADE
title_full_unstemmed STEPPE NOMADS IN THE EURASIAN TRADE
title_sort steppe nomads in the eurasian trade
publisher Universidad de Tarapacá. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Jurídicas. Departamento de Antropología
publishDate 2019
url http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0717-73562019000100085
work_keys_str_mv AT khazanovanatolym steppenomadsintheeurasiantrade
_version_ 1718443508919959552

Ejemplares similares