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Costly giving, giving Guaízas : towards an organic model of the exchange of social valuables in the Late Ceramic Age Caribbean / Angus A.A. Mol ; supervisors, Corinne L. Hofman, Raymond Corbey, Arie Boomert.
- Format:
- Book
- Thesis/Dissertation
- Author/Creator:
- Mol, Angenitus Arie Andries, 1984-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Excavations (Archaeology)--Caribbean Area.
- Excavations (Archaeology).
- Indians of the West Indies--Caribbean Area--Antiquities.
- Indians of the West Indies.
- Caribbean Area--Antiquities.
- Caribbean Area.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (209 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden : Sidestone Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- An Archaeology of Exchange is primarily an archaeology of human sociality and anti-sociality. Nevertheless, archaeological studies of exchange are numerous and varied, and archaeologists do not always approach exchange as a social mechanism, concentrating rather on the cultural, economic or political implications of exchange. Even so, at times it is worth retracing the implicit theoretical steps that archaeologists have taken and look at human sociality through the eyes of exchange as something new. This is undertaken here by concentrating on the exchange of social valuables in the later part
- Contents:
- pt. I. Revaluing valuables
- pt. II. The face of exchange.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Thesis (M.A.)--Religion and society in Native America - faculty of archaeology, Leiden Univ.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1-299-28181-8
- 90-8890-135-X
- OCLC:
- 830162141
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