This book first analyses the material and cultural character of the production and marketing of commodities and payment forms across the Euro-Asian Continuum - the 'second' or 'unbroken' landscape - taking up these categories of objects as things communicated and transmitted by producers and merchants. In this the book complements and continues the work collected in the author's earlier volume. Given received conceptions of culture and society in the social sciences contradicting such an empirical approach, the author then addresses several central methodological and epistemological issues, notably that of empirical complexity. His concern is to establish the existence of a knowledge-world and a world of identities that transcends current emphases upon nation, language and nationalism, and to consider the methodological principles necessary for reconstructing it.
| ISBN: | 9780860784319 |
| Publication date: | 14th April 1994 |
| Author: | Frank Perlin |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 357 pages |
| Series: | Variorum Collected Studies |
| Genres: |
Economic history Social and cultural anthropology History of other geographical groupings and regions |
This book first analyses the material and cultural character of the production and marketing of commodities and payment forms across the Euro-Asian Continuum - the 'second' or 'unbroken' landscape - taking up these categories of objects as things communicated and transmitted by producers and merchants. In this the book complements and continues the work collected in the author's earlier volume. Given received conceptions of culture and society in the social sciences contradicting such an empirical approach, the author then addresses several central methodological and epistemological issues, notably that of empirical complexity. His concern is to establish the existence of a knowledge-world and a world of identities that transcends current emphases upon nation, language and nationalism, and to consider the methodological principles necessary for reconstructing it.
Unbroken Landscape features in the following genres: General and world history, Economic history, Asian history
Unbroken Landscape is available in Hardback
Unbroken Landscape was written by Frank Perlin and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis
Unbroken Landscape has 357 pages
Yes it is part of Variorum Collected Studies series
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