Social archaeologies of trade and exchange : exploring relationships among people, places, and things / Alexander A. Bauer, Anna S. Agbe-Davies, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bauer, Alexander A.

Agbe-Davies, Anna.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social archaeology.

Commerce--Social aspects.

Commerce.

Exchange--Social aspects.

Exchange.

Material culture--Social aspects.

Material culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (237 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Walnut Creek, CA : Left Coast Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 ho

Contents:

Contents; Foreword by Robert W. Preucel ; Preface ; 1. Rethinking Trade as a Social Activity: An Introduction

Anna S. Agbe-Davies and Alexander A. Bauer; 2. Trade and Interaction in Archaeology

Alexander A. Bauer and Anna S. Agbe-Davies; 3. Landscapes of Circulation in Northwest Argentina: The Workings of Obsidian and Ceramics during the First Millenium AD

Marisa Lazzari; 4. Social Aspects of the Tobacco Pipe Trade in Early Colonial Virginia

Anna S. Agbe-Davies; 5. Arenas of Action: Trade as Power, Trade as Identity

Kenneth G. Kelly

6. Greeks and Phoenicians: Perceptions of Trade and Traders in Early First Millenium BC7. Those Who Were Traded: African-Bahamian Archaeology and the Slave Trade

Laurie A. Wilkie and PAul Farnsworth; 8. Broads, Studs, and Broken Down Daddies: The Materiality of ""Playing"" in the Modern Penitentiary

Eleanor Conlin Casella ; 9. Buying a Table in Erfelek: Socialities of Contact and Community in the Black Sea Region

Owen P. Doonan and Alexander A. Bauer; 10. Objects, Social Relations, and Cultural Motion

Greg Urban ; About the Authors ; Index

Notes:

First published 2010 by Left Coast Press, Inc.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-315-42004-X

1-315-42005-8

1-315-42003-1

1-59874-711-8

9781315420059

OCLC:

680434684