Timothy Earle

Bronze Age Economics (eBook, PDF)

The First Political Economies

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

"Timothy Earle has set out to offer the most comprehensive view now available of the economic foundations of early societies, and it may well be that he has succeeded. Bronze Age Economics is a pioneering contribution to archaeological theory." -Colin Renfrew, University of Cambridge

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429970542
• Artikelnr.: 54107819

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