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050 00 $aHD6454$b.V46 2016
082 00 $a338.9/32093209015$223
100 1 $aVenticinque, Philip Frank,$eauthor.
245 10 $aHonor among thieves :$bcraftsmen, merchants, and associations in Roman and Late Roman Egypt /$cPhilip F. Venticinque.
264 1 $aAnn Arbor :$bUniversity of Michigan Press,$c[2016]
300 $aix, 275 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aNew texts from ancient cultures
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 245-264) and index.
505 0 $aCharters, 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 -- Conclusion.
520 8 $aPhilip F. Venticinque's new volume examines associations of craftsmen in the framework of ancient economics and transaction costs. Scholars have long viewed such associations primarily as social or religious groups that 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.
650 0 $aGuilds$zEgypt$xHistory$yTo 1500.
650 0 $aMerchants$zEgypt$xSocieties, etc.
650 0 $aArtisans$zEgypt$xSocieties, etc.
651 0 $aEgypt$xHistory$y30 B.C.-640 A.D.
650 7 $aArtisans$xSocieties, etc.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00817539
650 7 $aGuilds.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00949055
650 7 $aMerchants$xSocieties, etc.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01017072
651 7 $aEgypt.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01208755
648 7 $aTo 1500$2fast
655 7 $aHistory.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411628
830 0 $aNew texts from ancient cultures.
852 00 $bglx$hHD6454$i.V46 2016