Unofficial economic circuits
It is still common to consider that the pharaonic economy was rigidly centralized and controlled by the state. However this is only part of the picture, as the economic networks dominated by the monarchy and the great institutions coexisted with other, unofficial ones. Recent archaeological discover...
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I15-R225-article-472022-06-18T01:01:20Z Unofficial economic circuits Circuitos económicos informales Moreno García, Juan Carlos artesanía economía mercaderes nómades comercio Crafts economy merchants nomads trade It is still common to consider that the pharaonic economy was rigidly centralized and controlled by the state. However this is only part of the picture, as the economic networks dominated by the monarchy and the great institutions coexisted with other, unofficial ones. Recent archaeological discoveries show the considerable volume and geographical scope of the exchanges led by maritime populations, herders, fishermen, peddlers, etc., independently of any state initiative. In fact, it seems rather possible that the expansionist policy led by some monarchies of the ancient Near East (including Egypt itself) sought to capture such lucrative commercial networks that escaped to their control, with the aim to tax them and get income. In other cases, the production of some quality craft production did not obey to the demand of the monarchy or that of the great institutions, but to an urban and rural demand instead, based on complex productive networks. These networks managed to integrate, depending on the circumstances, both workshops and domestic units. Finally, it seems that merchants represented an important urban productive sector in pharaonic Egypt, but the sources describing their business (specially private ones) still remain surprisingly scarce. Aunque es habitual considerar la economía faraónica como rígidamente centralizada y controlada por el estado, en realidad los circuitos económicos dominados por la monarquía y las grandes instituciones coexistían con otros, informales. Descubrimientos arqueológicos recientes demuestran el volumen y el alcance de intercambios protagonizados por poblaciones costeras, pastores, pescadores, mercaderes itinerantes, etc., al margen de cualquier intervención del estado. De hecho, parece plausible que en ocasiones la política expansiva de algunos estados del Próximo Oriente (incluido Egipto) perseguía capturar estas lucrativas redes comerciales que escapaban a su control y así gravarlas y extraer un beneficio económico. En otros casos, sabemos de la existencia de producciones artesanales de calidad cuya producción no obedecía a la demanda de la monarquía o de grandes instituciones, sino a una demanda urbana y rural que alimentaba circuitos de producción complejos capaces de integrar, según las necesidades, talleres y unidades domésticas. Por último, también parece que los mercaderes constituyeron un sector importante de la vida productiva y urbana del Egipto faraónico, si bien las fuentes relativas a sus negocios, sobre todo privados, son sorprendentemente escasas. Universidad Nacional de Rosario 2022-02-09 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf https://claroscuro.unr.edu.ar/index.php/revista/article/view/47 10.35305/cl.vi19.47 Claroscuro. Revista del Centro de Estudios sobre Diversidad Cultural; No. 19 (2020): New Trends in Egyptology; 1-30 Claroscuro. Revista del Centro de Estudios sobre Diversidad Cultural; Núm. 19 (2020): Nuevas tendencias en Egiptología; 1-30 2314-0542 spa https://claroscuro.unr.edu.ar/index.php/revista/article/view/47/35 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/ |
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It is still common to consider that the pharaonic economy was rigidly centralized and controlled by the state. However this is only part of the picture, as the economic networks dominated by the monarchy and the great institutions coexisted with other, unofficial ones. Recent archaeological discoveries show the considerable volume and geographical scope of the exchanges led by maritime populations, herders, fishermen, peddlers, etc., independently of any state initiative. In fact, it seems rather possible that the expansionist policy led by some monarchies of the ancient Near East (including Egypt itself) sought to capture such lucrative commercial networks that escaped to their control, with the aim to tax them and get income. In other cases, the production of some quality craft production did not obey to the demand of the monarchy or that of the great institutions, but to an urban and rural demand instead, based on complex productive networks. These networks managed to integrate, depending on the circumstances, both workshops and domestic units. Finally, it seems that merchants represented an important urban productive sector in pharaonic Egypt, but the sources describing their business (specially private ones) still remain surprisingly scarce. |
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