This book first analyses the material and cultural character of the production and marketing of commodities and payment forms across the Euro-Asian Continuum - the a seconda or a unbrokena landscape - taking up these categories of objects as things communicated and transmitted by producers and merchants. In this the book complements and continues the work collected in the authora s earlier volume. Given received conceptions of culture and society in the social sciences contradicting such an empirical approach, the author then addresses several central methodological and epistemological...