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Into the bazaar: Indian Ocean vernaculars in the age of global capitalism
Journal of Global History ( IF 2.000 ) Pub Date : 2020-06-17 , DOI: 10.1017/s174002282000011x
Fahad Bishara , Hollian Wint

Drawing on a far-flung, multilingual archive of contracts and financial instruments from around the western Indian Ocean, this article highlights how cross-cultural trade depended on the ability of groups to translate between one system and another, rendering one commercial lexicon legible to another so as to produce commensurability and allow for conversions to take place. Law constituted a foundational building block of this process: Indian Ocean merchants drew on a deep well of legal concepts and forms as they attempted to make their worlds legible to one another, mobilizing the grammars of law to bridge commercial systems. We situate these dynamics within the context of the Indian Ocean ‘bazaar’, establishing it as a site for thinking about the place of cross-cultural trade in world history, and the histories of global capitalism more broadly. We suggest that Euro-American capitalism’s very agents had to adapt their commerce to the idioms, logics, and contracts of their business partners around the Indian Ocean – a vernacular world of the bazaar that was itself already in motion.

中文翻译:

走进集市:全球资本主义时代的印度洋白话

本文利用来自西印度洋各地的广泛、多语言的合同和金融工具档案,强调了跨文化贸易如何依赖于群体在一个系统和另一个系统之间转换的能力,从而使一个商业词典在另一个系统中易读以便产生可通约性并允许发生转换。法律构成了这一过程的基石:印度洋商人利用法律概念和形式的深厚渊源,试图让他们的世界彼此清晰易读,动员法律的语法来架起商业体系的桥梁。我们将这些动态置于印度洋“集市”的背景下,将其打造为思考跨文化贸易在世界历史中的地位以及更广泛的全球资本主义历史的场所。
更新日期:2020-06-17
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