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

• Pubblicazione: London : , : Routledge, , 2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (237 p.)
• Disciplina: 930.1
• Soggetto topico: Social archaeology; Commerce - Social aspects; Exchange - Social aspects; Material culture - Social aspects
• Altri autori: Agbe-DaviesAnna BauerAlexander A
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Social archaeologies of trade and exchange
• ISBN: 1-315-42004-X; 1-315-42005-8; 1-315-42003-1; 1-59874-711-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910781011703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II