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Builds on prior scholarship to examine the unity-in-diversationality of the Old World and draws on Karl Polanyi’s substantivist economic anthropology to suggest continuities between ancient economic embeddedness and twentieth-century socialist forms. 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The amalgam Eurasia corrects this bias by highlighting the intensifying interconnectedness of the entire landmass in recent millennia. This article builds on the work of Jack Goody and others to analyze the unity-in-civilizational-diversity of the Old World. It draws on the substantivist economic anthropology of Karl Polanyi to postulate continuities between ancient ideals of economic embeddedness in the agrarian empires and various forms of socialism in the twentieth century. Today, when the human economy everywhere is again exposed to the domination of the market, the Eurasian dialectic has universal relevance. However, recognition and realization of pan-Eurasian affinities continues to be impeded by geopolitics, and sociocultural anthropology has a long way to go to overcome its Atlantic bias.  \nIntroduction: Words and Things  \nLike other social scientists, social and cultural anthropologists (hereafter “sociocultural”—the differences between these strands are unimportant for this article) have to reflect carefully on their concepts. It is essential to distinguish between the local (emic) concepts of the people studied and the external (etic) concepts of an investigating anthropologist. Adapting a word of the investigator’s mother tongue for the purpose of comparative analysis is fraught with danger. Perhaps otherlanguages offer more suitable words and draw their own emic/ etic distinctions in different ways? The history and theory of sociocultural anthropology would be very different if this discipline had developed in a non-European language. It is hard even to imagine what such an anthropology would look like.  \nThis article proposes no new solutions to perennial conundrums. In practice, sociocultural anthropologists are condemned to work within their evolved intellectual communities. We are more prone than most to doubt translatability, but even those who question concepts radically can hardly avoid engaging with the usage established by their predecessors. We generally do so in a spirit of nominalism: the meanings of X are not given in the world, independent of human intervention, but constructed by human agents through acts of naming. Rather than debating universals with philosophers, the job of anthropologists is then to track the social lives of concepts.  \nEurasia is a concept of this kind, with a history that can be tracked. However, it is also a spatiotemporalization with a reference in materialist realism, a thing. Eurasia refers to mat-  \nChris Hann is a founding Director of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (PO Box 11 03 51, 06017 Halle/Saale, Germany [[hann@eth.mpg.de](hann@eth.mpg.de)]). This paper was submitted 22 X 14, accepted 24 I 15, and electronically published 19 I 16 .  \nter that has existed in the world for a very long time, irrespective of how we choose to signify it. The precise boundaries of land and ocean have changed, but I am not concerned with geological time frames and only very indirectly with environmental changes.1 My aim is to derive a serviceable concept of Eurasia for sociocultural anthropologists from broad swathes of historical and social-science research concerned with grasping concrete processes of change in human society over the past three millennia. My concept is not a timeless “analytic”definition but an “optic” that offers a dynamic perspective on the history of the discipline as well as world history. An additional twist is that, quite recently, the word “Eurasia” has become prominent in public discourse outside the academy. This usage is at odds with my concept, but such is its mediatized influence that the view we now take of this wordconcept may have a bearing on the further evolution of the thing, and, as I argue below, with as little pathos as possible, the","cbCaii74RbhmxsUN","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaii74RbhmxsUN","pdf",362052,27,"English","# Introduction: Words and Things\n## Distinguishing emic and etic concepts\n## Nominalism and tracking concept lives\n# Eurasia as a constructed spatiotemporal optic\n## Historical boundaries and materialist realism\n## Academic vs public discourse of “Eurasia”","[{\"question\":\"What is the main purpose of discussing “Eurasia” in this article?\",\"answer\":\"To derive a serviceable concept of Eurasia for sociocultural anthropologists by tracking the concept’s history and the processes of change across the past three millennia.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the article treat “Eurasia” regarding its status as a concept?\",\"answer\":\"It treats Eurasia as both a constructed term and a spatiotemporalization with reference in materialist realism, focusing less on geological time and more on social-scientific processes.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the article emphasize differences between academic and public uses of “Eurasia”?\",\"answer\":\"Because recent prominence in public discourse conflicts with the article’s scholarly concept, and the mediatised influence of that usage may shape the thing’s further evolution.\"}]","A Concept of Eurasia - by Chris Hann - Introduction and Framework | PDF",1790887773,42]