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Nordic Bronze Age Economies
Av Christian Horn, Knut Ivar Austvoll m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
289 kr
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Provides a multi-scalar synthesis of Nordic Bronze Age economies (1800/1700-500 BCE) that is organized around six sections: an introduction to the Nordic Bronze Age, macro-economic perspectives, defining local communities, economic interaction, conflict and alliances, political formations, and …
The Shang Economy
Inbunden, 2025
938 kr
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This Element constitutes a systematic attempt to preliminarily reconstruct the Shang economy based on contemporary archaeological and textual evidence. At the same time, the rapid pace of Chinese archaeological discovery and the increasing deployment of archaeological science means that there is a …
Shell Money
A Comparative Study
Häftad, 2024
317 kr
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Where, when, and under what circumstances did money first emerge? This Element examines this question through a comparative study of the use of shells to facilitate trade and exchange in ancient societies around the world. It argues that shell money was a form of social technology that expanded …
The Shang Economy
Häftad, 2025
291 kr
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This Element constitutes a systematic attempt to preliminarily reconstruct the Shang economy based on contemporary archaeological and textual evidence. At the same time, the rapid pace of Chinese archaeological discovery and the increasing deployment of archaeological science means that there is a …
Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age Economies of Mesopotamia
4th and 3rd Millennia BCE
Av Marcella Frangipane, Lucia Mori
Häftad, 2026
308 kr
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The Element reconstructs economic developments in the crucial phase of State formation in Mesopotamia, from the 4th to early 3rd millennium BCE, trying to understand how interrelating environmental, social, economic, and political factors in the two main areas of Mesopotamia profoundly changed the …
Ancient and Pre-modern Economies of the North American Pacific Northwest
Häftad, 2023
284 kr
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This Element provides an overview of pre-modern and ancient economies of the Pacific Northwest region of North America. The region is widely known for its densely occupied semisedentary villages, intensive production economies, dramatic ritual life, and complex social relations. Scholars recognize …
The Aztec Economy
Häftad, 2023
284 kr
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The Aztec Economy provides a synthesis and updated examination of the Aztec economy (1325-1521 AD). It is organized around seven components that recur with other Elements in this series: historic and geographic background, domestic economy, institutional economy, specialization, forms of …
A Historical Ethnography of the Enga Economy of Papua New Guinea
Av Polly Wiessner, Akii Tumu m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
311 kr
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The question addressed in this Element is: What happens to a society when, in the absence of influence from foreign populations, constraints are released by a new crop making possible significant surplus production? We will draw on the historical traditions of 110 tribes of the Enga of Papua New …
Ancient Maya Economies
Häftad, 2024
311 kr
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Ancient Maya Economies synthesizes the state of the art across seven components: geographical and historical background, ritual economy, households, specialization, exchange, political economies, and future directions. Other Elements case studies use many of the same components, making it easy to …
Aboriginal Homelands and Economy in Australia's Western Desert
Martu Ngurrara
Av Douglas W. Bird, Rebecca Bliege Bird
Häftad, 2026
284 kr
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This Element is about the interacting socio-ecological relationships of a contemporary Aboriginal foraging economy. In the Western Desert of Australia, Martu Aboriginal systems of subsistence, mobility, property, and transmission are manifest as distinct homelands and networks of religious estates. …
Slavery in Capitalism
A Deep History
Inbunden, 2026
938 kr
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The enslavement of Africans in the Americas profoundly shaped the continent's demography, cultures, languages, and legal systems, playing a decisive role in modern economic growth and the rise of industrial capitalism. Yet, its historical interpretation remains contested. One view sees modern …
Slavery in Capitalism
A Deep History
Häftad, 2026
291 kr
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The enslavement of Africans in the Americas profoundly shaped the continent's demography, cultures, languages, and legal systems, playing a decisive role in modern economic growth and the rise of industrial capitalism. Yet, its historical interpretation remains contested. One view sees modern …
Nordic Bronze Age Economies
Av Christian Horn, Knut Ivar Austvoll m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
938 kr
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Provides a multi-scalar synthesis of Nordic Bronze Age economies (1800/1700-500 BCE) that is organized around six sections: an introduction to the Nordic Bronze Age, macro-economic perspectives, defining local communities, economic interaction, conflict and alliances, political formations, and …
A Historical Ethnography of the Enga Economy of Papua New Guinea
Av Polly Wiessner, Akii Tumu m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
938 kr
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The question addressed in this Element is: What happens to a society when, in the absence of influence from foreign populations, constraints are released by a new crop making possible significant surplus production? We will draw on the historical traditions of 110 tribes of the Enga of Papua New …
Shell Money
A Comparative Study
Inbunden, 2024
938 kr
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Where, when, and under what circumstances did money first emerge? This Element examines this question through a comparative study of the use of shells to facilitate trade and exchange in ancient societies around the world. It argues that shell money was a form of social technology that expanded …
Craft Specialization
Häftad, 2026
284 kr
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Specialization, the regularized or institutionalized production for use by and exchange with others, underlies social cohesion at all sociopolitical scales; it is as much a social phenomenon as it is an economic and logistical one. Craft specialization can be studied across cultures and time …
Craft Specialization
Inbunden, 2026
930 kr
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Specialization, the regularized or institutionalized production for use by and exchange with others, underlies social cohesion at all sociopolitical scales; it is as much a social phenomenon as it is an economic and logistical one. Craft specialization can be studied across cultures and time …
Ancient Maya Economies
Inbunden, 2024
938 kr
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Ancient Maya Economies synthesizes the state of the art across seven components: geographical and historical background, ritual economy, households, specialization, exchange, political economies, and future directions. Other Elements case studies use many of the same components, making it easy to …
Developing Maritime Economies of the Pre-Colonial Massim, Papua New Guinea
The Making of an Island World and the Foundations of Kula
Av Ben Shaw
Inbunden, 2026
938 kr
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The Massim region of Papua New Guinea has been the focus of intensive ethnographic interest for over a century because of sociocultural practices and maritime economies that connect island populations, including the famed Kula ring. Ethnographic models of Kula have been critiqued as ahistorical and …
Developing Maritime Economies of the Pre-Colonial Massim, Papua New Guinea
The Making of an Island World and the Foundations of Kula
Av Ben Shaw
Häftad, 2026
291 kr
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The Massim region of Papua New Guinea has been the focus of intensive ethnographic interest for over a century because of sociocultural practices and maritime economies that connect island populations, including the famed Kula ring. Ethnographic models of Kula have been critiqued as ahistorical and …
Aboriginal Homelands and Economy in Australia's Western Desert
Martu Ngurrara
Av Douglas W. Bird, Rebecca Bliege Bird
Inbunden, 2026
930 kr
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This Element is about the interacting socio-ecological relationships of a contemporary Aboriginal foraging economy. In the Western Desert of Australia, Martu Aboriginal systems of subsistence, mobility, property, and transmission are manifest as distinct homelands and networks of religious estates. …
Economies of the Inca World
Av R. Alan Covey, Jordan A. Dalton
Häftad, 2025
317 kr
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The Inca Empire (c. 1400-1532) was the largest Indigenous state to develop in the Americas, spanning the extraordinarily rich landscapes of the central Andes. Scholarly approaches to Inca-era economies initially drew on Spanish colonial documents that emphasized royal resource monopolies, labor …
Economies of the Inca World
Av R. Alan Covey, Jordan A. Dalton
Inbunden, 2025
938 kr
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The Inca Empire (c. 1400-1532) was the largest Indigenous state to develop in the Americas, spanning the extraordinarily rich landscapes of the central Andes. Scholarly approaches to Inca-era economies initially drew on Spanish colonial documents that emphasized royal resource monopolies, labor …
Reading Creation Myths Economically in Ancient Mesopotamia and Israel
Inbunden, 2025
938 kr
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Creation myths in the ancient Middle East served, among other things, as works of political economy, justifying and naturalizing materially intensive ritual practices and their entanglements with broader economic processes and institutions. These rituals were organized according to a common …
Reading Creation Myths Economically in Ancient Mesopotamia and Israel
Häftad, 2025
291 kr
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Creation myths in the ancient Middle East served, among other things, as works of political economy, justifying and naturalizing materially intensive ritual practices and their entanglements with broader economic processes and institutions. These rituals were organized according to a common …
Peasant Economies and Societies in Ancient Roman Iberia
Av Jesús Bermejo Tirado, Ignasi Grau Mira
Inbunden, 2025
938 kr
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This Element revisits the historiographical and archaeological paradigms of Roman rural economies, with a particular focus on the peasant communities of Roman Iberia. Traditionally overshadowed by the dominance of the villa schiavistica model, which centers on large-scale slave-operated …
Peasant Economies and Societies in Ancient Roman Iberia
Av Jesús Bermejo Tirado, Ignasi Grau Mira
Häftad, 2025
291 kr
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This Element revisits the historiographical and archaeological paradigms of Roman rural economies, with a particular focus on the peasant communities of Roman Iberia. Traditionally overshadowed by the dominance of the villa schiavistica model, which centers on large-scale slave-operated …
Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age Economies of Mesopotamia
4th and 3rd Millennia BCE
Av Marcella Frangipane, Lucia Mori
Inbunden, 2026
911 kr
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The Element reconstructs economic developments in the crucial phase of State formation in Mesopotamia, from the 4th to early 3rd millennium BCE, trying to understand how interrelating environmental, social, economic, and political factors in the two main areas of Mesopotamia profoundly changed the …
The Pre-Modern Māori Economy
Inbunden, 2026
815 kr
Kommande
Abstract Raymond Firth (1929) published The Economics of the New Zealand Maori, foundational to Economic Anthropology. Surprisingly, no book-length overview has been written since that takes advantage of a century of information from archaeology, Māori history, and contemporary theoretical …
The Pre-Modern Māori Economy
Häftad, 2026
253 kr
Kommande
Abstract Raymond Firth (1929) published The Economics of the New Zealand Maori, foundational to Economic Anthropology. Surprisingly, no book-length overview has been written since that takes advantage of a century of information from archaeology, Māori history, and contemporary theoretical …
