Ref ID:	37843
Ref Type:	Journal Article
Authors:	John N. Miksic
Title:	Review of "Robert S. Wicks: Money, markets, and trade in early Southeast Asia: the development of indigenous monetary systems to A.D. 1400. (Studies on Southeast Asia.) xii, 354 pp. Ithaca, NY: Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University, 1992. $20."
Date:	2009
Source:	Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
DOI:	10.1017/S0041977X00009290
Abstract:	The function of ancient South-East Asian coinage (or coin-like objects) is still controversial. This book adduces evidence to show how diverse were the concepts related to the Western idea of 'money' in early South-East Asia. Wicks's two main goals are: to understand how physical objects used as money and related exchange concepts developed in South-East Asia, and to describe specific South-East Asian monetary systems. The book's time frame ends in 1400, corresponding to change in what the author terms' valuational concepts', a felicitous formulation, concomitant with the advent of Islam in the island realm, and with analogous changes in mainland South-East Asia
Volume:	57
Number:	3
Page Start:	630
Page End:	631