<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Debt and Credit: Entangling the Marginal and Liminal in the Non-monetary Economies of Bronze Age Ugarit</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Journal of Ancient Near Eastern History </style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2022</style></year></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">9</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">243-258</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;In a non-monetary economy, one of the main mechanisms for the&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;storage of wealth is debt. For people living on the margins of the major urban&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;societies of the Bronze Age Near East, debt and credit offered means of participating&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;in larger aspects of economic life yet simultaneously allowed elites to gain&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;access to their bodies, their family members, and their property as means of wealth&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;storage. This paper seeks to explore how debt and credit were used to entangle&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;marginal and liminal groups but also, perhaps, offered these same groups opportunities&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;for resistance or for integration into larger polities. Textual evidence for&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;debt and credit can allow us the opportunity to gain access to different information&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;about the lives of marginal and liminal people. Using the Late Bronze Age Syrian&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;city of Ugarit as a case study, this paper will explore some of the possible ways that&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;the debt and credit mechanisms attested in the administrative record reflect&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;practices through which marginal and liminal individuals became integrated into&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;a larger Ugaritic society.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2</style></issue></record></records></xml>