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DESCRIPTION:Ed Wilmsen\, Dept of Anthropology\, University of Texas\, autho
 r of 'Land Full of Flies: A Political Economy of the Kalahari' (U. of Chic
 ago Press\, 1989)\, a critique of Richard Lee's Kalahari project from arch
 aeological\, historical and ethnographic perspectives.                    
                     Abstract: In this paper\, I engage a social geography 
 in order to map the processes by which intercontinental trade was regulate
 d in interior southern Africa during the 8th-15th centuries. This region w
 as at that time part of an early form of 'globalization' encompassing the 
 entire Indo-Pacific province as well as the Islamic caliphates of the east
 ern Mediterranean. There are no written records for or from this interior 
 region until the beginning of the 16th century\, when Portuguese captured 
 the Swahili trading entrepôts on the east coast and began to penetrate int
 o the interior. Other forms of evidence must be adduced to illuminate the 
 social processes active in the interior in the centuries I am considering.
  Material artifacts are a prime source of evidence for this task\, for\, I
  contend\, they have the same ontological status as words. Drawing on the 
 works of Locke\, Marx and Engels\, Simmel and Veblen I argue that\, marked
  by distinct intentions of their makers and users\, material artifacts are
  potentially as comprehensible as verbal documents.  With these premises s
 et forth\, I turn to the scope of early Indo-Pacific commodity exchange\, 
 then to an overview of the southern African landscape\, and finally to epi
 sodes of origin mythology widespread in the region. From this I specify ce
 rtain minimum components of a structure of rights to possession of things\
 , rules governing who may inherit specific things\, rules governing moveme
 nt of these things\, rules governing who may handle them\, and rules gover
 ning processes of their valuation.\n
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 ke Ouest
SUMMARY:Globalization before the globe: Regulation of intercontinental trad
 e in southern Africa\, ca. CE 700-1800
URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/channels/event/globalization-globe-regulation-int
 ercontinental-trade-southern-africa-ca-ce-700-1800-28535
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