Social Archaeologies of Trade and Exchange

Exploring Relationships among People, Places, and Things

Inbunden, Engelska, 2010

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Beskrivning

This volume focuses on the anthropological concept of trade as a fundamentally social activity concerned not only with the movement of goods, but also on the social context and consequences of that exchange. The distinguished contributors discuss trade on a range of scales—from a solitary confinement cell to trans-oceanic networks—in settings around the world and over the past 3000 years. They address themes such as exchange as a communicative act, the ways in which exchange transforms the relationship between people and things, the significance of agency and power in contexts of trade, and how sites of consumption and discard speak to processes of exchange. The volume merges traditional archaeological concerns about trade and exchange with more contemporary issues of agency, identity and social meaning.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2010-06-15
Mått:152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt:516 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:236
Förlag:Left Coast Press Inc
ISBN:9781598740295

Utforska kategorier

Arkeologi inom Historia och arkeologi
Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Bauer, Alexander A; Agbe-Davies, Anna S

Recensioner i media

This volume marks an important advance in trade and exchange studies and should be on the bookshelves of all archaeologists. It draws inspiration from its Processual antecedents and, at the same time, engages with new Postprocessual theories of agency, identity, meaning, and materiality in order to develop new ideas about the circulation of culture.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1 Rethinking Trade as a Social Activity: An Introduction, Anna S. Agbe-Davies, Alexander A. Bauer; Chapter 2 Trade and Interaction in Archaeology, Alexander A. Bauer, Anna S. Agbe-Davies; Chapter 3 Landscapes of Circulation in Northwest Argentina: The Workings of Obsidian and Ceramics during the First Millennium ad, Marisa Lazzari; Chapter 4 Social Aspects of the Tobacco Pipe Trade in Early Colonial Virginia, Anna S. Agbe-Davies; Chapter 5 Arenas of Action: Trade as Power, Trade as Identity, Kenneth G. Kelly; Chapter 6 Greeks and Phoenicians: Perceptions of Trade and Traders in the Early First Millennium bc, Susan Sherratt; Chapter 7 Those Who Were Traded: African-Bahamian Archaeology and the Slave Trade, Laurie A. Wilkie, Paul Farnsworth; Chapter 8 Broads, Studs, and Broken Down Daddies: The Materiality of “Playing” in the Modern Penitentiary, Eleanor Conlin Casella; Chapter 9 Buying a Table in Erfelek: Socialities of Contact and Community in the Black Sea Region, Owen P. Doonan, Alexander A. Bauer; Chapter 10 Objects, Social Relations, and Cultural Motion, Greg Urban;