Modes of production and archaeology / edited by Robert M. Rosenswig and Jerimy J. Cunningham.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rosenswig, Robert M., editor.

Cunningham, Jerimy J., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Marxian economics.

Production (Economic theory).

Economic anthropology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (358 pages) : illustrations, tables

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Gainesville, Florida : University of Florida Press, 2017.

Summary:

This volume challenges the historical materialistic, non-capitalist modes that are used by archaeologists as not all that useful and instead considers how social labor is organized to transform nature into culturally refined and useful resources and how this can either maintain or change a culture. Rather than describe what a society is, using the theoretical framework of Marx and materialism, a mode of production approach explores what a society does in a more dynamic sense.

Contents:

Introducing modes of production in archaeology / Robert M. Rosenswig and Jerimy J. Cunningham

Hunter-gatherer studies

Modes of production in Southern California at the end of the eighteenth century / Thomas C. Patterson

Applying modes of production analysis to non-state, or anarchic, societies: shifting from historical epochs to seasonal microscale / Bill Angelbeck

Early agricultural modes of production in Mesoamerica: new insights from southern and central Mexico / Guillermo Acosta Ochoa

Production and consumption: theory, methodology, and lithic analysis / Myrian ?lvarez and Ivan Briz Godino

Kin-mode contradictions, crises, and transformations in the archaic lower mississippi valley / Bradley E. Ensor

Pre-state agriculturalists

The tributary mode of production and justifying ideologies: evaluating the Wolf-Trigger Hypothesis / Robert M. Rosenswig

The ritual mode of production in the casas grandes social field / Jerimy J. Cunningham

Bronze economy and mode of production: the role of comparative advantages in temperate Europe during the Bronze Age / Johan Ling, Per Cornell, and Kristian Kristiansen

Ancient states

Social formations analysis: modes, class, gender, and the multiple contexts for agency / Bradley E. Ensor

Re-envisioning prehispanic Mesoamerican economies: modes of production, fiscal foundations of collective action, and conceptual legacies / Gary M. Feinman and Linda M. Nicholas

Modern states

Colonialism, articulation, and modes of production at an early seventeenth-century english colony in the Western Caribbean / Charles E. Orser Jr

The plantation mode of production / James A. Delle.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8130-5303-X

0-8130-5267-X

OCLC:

988029121