Format:
1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
ISBN:
160732380X
,
9781607323808
Content:
"Placing the concept of surplus at the forefront of archaeological discussions on production, consumption, power, strategy, and change, this volume reaches beyond conventional ways of thinking about top-down or bottom-up models and offers a comparative framework to examine surplus, generating new questions and methodologies to elucidate the social and political economies of the past"--
Content:
Surplus : the politics of production and the strategies of everyday and life : an introduction / Christopher T. Morehart and Kristin De Lucia -- The cost of conquest : assessing the impact of Inka tribute demands on the Wanka of Highland Peru / Cathy L. Costin -- Surplus and social change : the production of household and field in pre-Aztec Central Mexico / Kristin De Lucia and Christopher T. Morehart -- Surplus in the Indus civilization : agricultural choices, social relations, political effects / Heather M.-L. Miller -- Surplus from below : self-organization of production in early Sweden / T.L. Thurston -- From surplus land to surplus production in the Viking age settlement of Iceland / Douglas J. Bolender -- Surplus capture in contrasting modes of religiosity : perspectives from sixteenth century Mesoamerica / E. Christian Wells -- Surplus houses : palace politics in the bight of Benin West Africa, 1650-1727 A.D. / Neil L. Norman -- Surplus labor, ceremonial feasting and social inequality at Cahokia : a study in social process / James A. Brown and John E. Kelly -- The sociality of surplus among late Archaic hunter-gatherers of coastal Georgia / Victor D. Thompson and Christopher R. Moore -- The transactional dynamics of surplus in landscapes of enslavement : scalar perspectives from interstitial West Africa / Ann B. Stahl -- Conclusions: Surplus and the political economy in prehistory / Timothy Earle.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
Additional Edition:
9781607323716
Additional Edition:
1607323710
Additional Edition:
9781607323716
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Surplus Boulder : University of Colorado Press, 2015
Language:
English
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