Why Periodic Markets Are Held: Considering Products, People, and Place in the Yunnan-Vietnam Border Area

• 西谷 大

  国立歴史・民俗博物館研究部

• Badenoch Nathan

  京都大学東南アジア研究所　白眉センター

抄録

This paper probes the mechanism of present-day periodic markets and how they operate through a detailed case study of periodic markets frequented by different ethnic groups in Jinping county, Yunnan, China. It sets out to identify the defining characteristics of periodic markets and considers the question of why they arise and why they continue to survive today. Past research has demonstrated that a key feature of periodic markets in traditional China was their accessibility and the freedom that they afforded local residents in buying and selling commodities. Fieldwork confirms that six-day-cycle markets, based on the 12-day Chinese zodiac, in Jinping county do give producers of all ethnicities the freedom to sell their produce, but alsopoints out that the market environment encourages the spontaneous specialization of production skills and provides an important place for social interaction and expression of the local cultures.

収録刊行物

• Southeast Asian Studies

  Southeast Asian Studies 2 (1), 171-192, 2013

  京都大学　東南アジア地域研究研究所

キーワード

• periodic markets
• marketplaces
• Yunnan
• ethnic diversity

詳細情報

• CRID: 1390001205766808192
• NII論文ID: 110009558124
• NII書誌ID: AA1256533X
• DOI: 10.20495/seas.2.1_171
• ISSN: 24238686
• ISSN: 21867275
• HANDLE: 2433/173780
• NDL書誌ID: 024433558
• Web Site: https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp/books/R000000004-I024433558
• 本文言語コード: en
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