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Honor among thieves : craftsmen, merchants, and associations in Roman and Late Roman Egypt / Philip F. Venticinque.
Author
Venticinque, Philip Frank
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2016]
Description
ix, 275 pages ; 24 cm.
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Firestone Library - Classics Collection
HD6454 .V46 2016
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Guilds
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Egypt
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History
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To 1500
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Merchants
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Egypt
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Societies, etc
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Artisans
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Egypt
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Societies, etc
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Egypt
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History
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30 B.C.-640 A.D.
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Series
New texts from ancient cultures
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Summary note
Philip F. Venticinque's new volume examines associations of craftsmen in the framework of ancient economics and transaction costs. Scholars havelong viewed such associations primarily as social or religious groupsthat provided mutual support, proper burial, and sociability, and spaces where non-elite individuals could seek status supposedly denied them in their contemporary society. However, the analysis presented here concentrates on how craftsmen, merchants, and associations interacted with each other and with elite and non-elite constituencies; managed economic, political, social, and legal activities; represented their concerns to the authorities; and acquired and used social capital-a new and important view of these economic engines. "Honor Among Thieves" offers a study of associations from a social,economic, and legal point of view, and in the process examines how they helped their members overcome high transaction costs -the "costs of doing business" -through the development of social capital. He explores associations from the "bottom up," in order to see how their members create status and reputation outside of an elite framework. He thus explores how occupations regarded as thieves in elite ideology create their own systems of honor.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-264) and index.
Contents
Charters, transaction costs, and trust
The business of trust
Reputation management
Reputation, rhetoric, and participation
Associations in legal thought and practice
Associations in Late Roman Egypt.
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ISBN
9780472130160 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
0472130161 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
LCCN
2016034771
OCLC
949986620
Other standard number
99970224583
12992461
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