Agricultural brokers.
Pigs worked as brokers of agrarian life in the early medieval west in two ways. First, they converted organisms and spaces that humans did not directly exploit into a 'commodity' that humans did value. And the material work that pigs did made possible a second kind of brokerage, this one conceptual:...
| Published in: | Early Medieval Europe Vol. 28; no. 3; pp. 425 - 444 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Aug2020
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