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The trader' s dilemma, which typically occurs in peasant villages, arises in two contexts. First, the trader buys agricultural products in his or her village; although these products are often resold outside the village at a market, where laws of supply and demand exist and profit margins are rather limited, the trader nevertheless feels morally obliged to pay fellow villagers a good price for their products or even eventually to share profits with those villagers. Second, in his or her village shop, the trader sells imported products, but because of villagers' constrained finances must do so at reduced price, or even on credit. In both cases, the trader confronts the risk of either losing working capital or losing the respect and moral support of neighbors and kinfolk.
A classical way out of the dilemma, according to Evers, is sociocultural differentiation of peasants and traders into two separate, locally coexisting moral communities. Evers' point is theoretically significant because it implies that such differentiation may be economically rather than politically motivated. Thus, while in many societies traders are strangers, a migrant minority, it may also happen that a resident trading minority itself creates cultural distance in order to find a solution for the trader' s dilemma, which thus may drive sociocultural change.
A classical way out of the dilemma, according to Evers, is sociocultural differentiation of peasants and traders into two separate, locally coexisting moral communities. Evers' point is theoretically significant because it implies that such differentiation may be economically rather than politically motivated. Thus, while in many societies traders are strangers, a migrant minority, it may also happen that a resident trading minority itself creates cultural distance in order to find a solution for the trader' s dilemma, which thus may drive sociocultural change.
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