1st Edition
Social Archaeologies of Trade and Exchange Exploring Relationships among People, Places, and Things
236 Pages
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Routledge
236 Pages
by
Routledge
236 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Chapter 1 Rethinking Trade as a Social Activity: An Introduction, Anna S. Agbe-Davies, Alexander A. Bauer; Chapter 2 Trade and Interaction in Archaeology, Alexander A. Bauer, Anna S. Agbe-Davies; Chapter 3 Landscapes of Circulation in Northwest Argentina: The Workings of Obsidian and Ceramics during the First Millennium ad, Marisa Lazzari; Chapter 4 Social Aspects of the Tobacco Pipe Trade in Early Colonial Virginia, Anna S. Agbe-Davies; Chapter 5 Arenas of Action: Trade as Power, Trade as Identity, Kenneth G. Kelly; Chapter 6 Greeks and Phoenicians: Perceptions of Trade and Traders in the Early First Millennium bc, Susan Sherratt; Chapter 7 Those Who Were Traded: African-Bahamian Archaeology and the Slave Trade, Laurie A. Wilkie, Paul Farnsworth; Chapter 8 Broads, Studs, and Broken Down Daddies: The Materiality of “Playing” in the Modern Penitentiary, Eleanor Conlin Casella; Chapter 9 Buying a Table in Erfelek: Socialities of Contact and Community in the Black Sea Region, Owen P. Doonan, Alexander A. Bauer; Chapter 10 Objects, Social Relations, and Cultural Motion, Greg Urban;
Biography
Bauer, Alexander A; Agbe-Davies, Anna S
