| 单词 | silent trade |
| 释义 | > as lemmassilent trade silent trade n. historical a system of trade in which goods are exchanged without the parties encountering each other.In this system of trade, the first party leaves goods in a specific location and then withdraws. A second party then leaves the goods it wishes to exchange in the same location and withdraws. If the first party agrees to the trade, it takes the goods offered by the second party, before the second party returns and takes those offered by the first party. If the first party does not accept the exchange, it leaves the goods and withdraws again to allow the second party to alter its offer.This system of trade is popularly attributed to traders in West Africa, but the existence of such a practice is disputed (see e.g. quot. 2007). ΚΠ 1899 M. H. Kingsley W. Afr. Stud. x. 220 (heading) Concerning the accounts given by classic writers of West Africa, and of the method of barter called the Silent Trade. 2007 Jrnl. Afr. Hist. 48 396 Farias showed that the ‘silent trade’ was not a fact but a topos that kept resurfacing in Arabic, Portuguese and other sources after the ninth century. < as lemmas |
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