Surplus : the politics of production and the strategies of everyday life / edited by Christopher T. Morehart and Kristin De Lucia.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Morehart, Christopher T., editor.

De Lucia, Kristin, editor.

JSTOR (Organization)

John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social archaeology.

Ethnoarchaeology.

Surplus (Economics)--Social aspects--History.

Surplus (Economics).

Surplus (Economics)--Political aspects--History.

Production (Economic theory)--History.

Production (Economic theory).

Economics--History--To 1800.

Economics.

History.

Agriculture--History.

Agriculture.

Social change--History.

Social change.

Household archaeology.

Community archaeology.

Surplus (Economics)--Political aspects.

Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

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Place of Publication:

Boulder : University of Colorado Press, [2015]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The concept of surplus captures the politics of production and also conveys the active material means by which people develop the strategies to navigate everyday life. Surplus: The Politics of Production and the Strategies of Everyday Life examines how surpluses affected ancient economies, governments, and households in civilizations across Mesoamerica, the Southwest United States, the Andes, Northern Europe, West Africa, Mesopotamia, and eastern Asia. A hallmark of archaeological research on sociopolitical complexity, surplus is central to theories of political inequality and institutional finance. This book investigates surplus as a macro-scalar process on which states or other complex political formations depend and considers how past people-differentially positioned based on age, class, gender, ethnicity, role, and goal-produced, modified, and mobilized their social and physical worlds. 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. Book jacket.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Surplus

ISBN:

9781607323808

160732380X

Publisher Number:

40025350224

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.