Costly giving, giving Guaízas [[electronic resource] ] : 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

• Autore: Mol Angus A. A
• Pubblicazione: Leiden, : Sidestone Press, 2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (209 p.)
• Disciplina: 303.3720899
• Soggetto topico: Excavations (Archaeology) - Caribbean Area; Indians of the West Indies - Caribbean Area - Antiquities
• Soggetto geografico: Caribbean Area Antiquities
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Costly giving, giving Guaízas
• ISBN: 1-299-28181-8; 90-8890-135-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910465396303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II