Timothy Earle

Bronze Age Economics

The First Political Economies

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing in detail on the cases of chiefdoms in Hawaii, the Andes, and Denmark, Bronze Age Economics documents how intensification of economies, surplus mobilization, and controlled distribution of both staple and prestige goods fundamentally drove the political evolutionary processes that prefigured states.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 466
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 820g
• ISBN-13: 9780367314712
• ISBN-10: 0367314711
• Artikelnr.: 57538044

Autorenporträt

Timothy Earle is Professor and Chair of Anthropology at Northwestern and was formerly Professor of Anthropology at UCLA.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Political Economies of Chiefdoms and Agrarian States
The Ecology and Politics of Primitive Valuables
Chiefdoms in Archaeological and Ethnohistorical Perspectives
Part 1 Hawaiian Chiefdoms
A Reappraisal of Redistribution
Prehistoric Irrigation in the Hawaiian Islands
Specialization and the Production of Wealth
Style and Iconography as Legitimation in Complex Chiefdoms
Part 2 Andean Chiefdoms and the Inka Empire
Staple Finance, Wealth Finance, and Storage in the Inka Political Economy
Wealth Finance in the Inka Empire
Exchange and Social Stratification in the Andes
Status Distinction and Legitimation of Power as Reflected in Changing Patterns of Consumption in Late Prehispanic Peru
Part 3 Chiefdoms of Denmark
The Bronze Age Economy of Thy
Property Rights and the Evolution of Chiefdoms
Ideology, Materialization, and Power Strategies