Why Periodic Markets Are Held: Considering Products, People, and Place in the Yunnan-Vietnam Border Area(<Special Issue> Upland Peoples in the Making of History in Northern Continental Southeast Asia)

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• This paper probes the mechanism of present-day periodic markets and how theyoperate through a detailed case study of periodic markets frequented by differentethnic groups in Jinping county, Yunnan, China. It sets out to identify the definingcharacteristics of periodic markets and considers the question of why they arise andwhy they continue to survive today. Past research has demonstrated that a keyfeature of periodic markets in traditional China was their accessibility and the freedomthat they afforded local residents in buying and selling commodities. Fieldworkconfirms that six-day-cycle markets, based on the 12-day Chinese zodiac, in Jinpingcounty do give producers of all ethnicities the freedom to sell their produce, but alsopoints out that the market environment encourages the spontaneous specializationof production skills and provides an important place for social interaction and expressionof the local cultures.

• 2013-04-30

著者

• Badenoch Nathan

  京都大学東南アジア研究所

• 西谷 大

  国立歴史・民俗博物館研究部

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