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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792058103321

Autore

Mol Angenitus Arie Andries <1984->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, : Sidestone Press, 2007

ISBN

1-299-28181-8

90-8890-135-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 pages)

Disciplina

303.3720899

Soggetti

Excavations (Archaeology) - Caribbean Area

Indians of the West Indies - Caribbean Area - Antiquities

Caribbean Area Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

pt. I. Revaluing valuables -- pt. II. The face of exchange.

Sommario/riassunto

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