Christopher P. Garraty is a senior ceramic analyst at Statistical Research, Inc. Barbara L. Stark is a professor of anthropology at the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University.

"These significant contributions to economic anthropology should encourage comparative cross-cultural diologues and foster new approaches to the study of premodern market exchange...The Garraty and Stark volume is a giant step forward in understanding market systems, market places, and sociocultural and religious parameters that impinge upon the economic structure of preindustrial societies."—Charles C. Kolb, The Cambridge Archaeological Journal

Christopher P. Garraty is a senior ceramic analyst at Statistical Research, Inc. Barbara L. Stark is a professor of anthropology at the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University.

"These significant contributions to economic anthropology should encourage comparative cross-cultural diologues and foster new approaches to the study of premodern market exchange...The Garraty and Stark volume is a giant step forward in understanding market systems, market places, and sociocultural and religious parameters that impinge upon the economic structure of preindustrial societies."—Charles C. Kolb, The Cambridge Archaeological Journal

Christopher P. Garraty is a senior ceramic analyst at Statistical Research, Inc. Barbara L. Stark is a professor of anthropology at the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University.

"These significant contributions to economic anthropology should encourage comparative cross-cultural diologues and foster new approaches to the study of premodern market exchange...The Garraty and Stark volume is a giant step forward in understanding market systems, market places, and sociocultural and religious parameters that impinge upon the economic structure of preindustrial societies."—Charles C. Kolb, The Cambridge Archaeological Journal