Record Nr.

UNINA9910781011703321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa


London : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-315-42004-X

1-315-42005-8

1-315-42003-1

1-59874-711-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (237 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

Agbe-DaviesAnna

BauerAlexander A

Disciplina

930.1

Soggetti

Social archaeology

Commerce - Social aspects

Exchange - Social aspects

Material culture - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2010 by Left Coast Press, Inc.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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

Record Nr.

UNINA9910708116703321

Titolo

Report to the Surgeon General of the United States Army on an improved method of photographing histological preparations by sunlight / by J.J. Woodward

Pubbl/distr/stampa


Washington [D.C., : s.n.], 1871

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource ([2], 10, [1] p.)

Collana

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Photography

Altri autori (Persone)

WoodwardJoseph Janvier <1833-1884.>