Trade before Civilization (eBook, ePUB)

Long Distance Exchange and the Rise of Social Complexity
Redaktion: Ling, Johan

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Produktbeschreibung

Trade before Civilization explores the role that long-distance exchange played in the establishment and/or maintenance of social complexity, and its role in the transformation of societies from egalitarian to non-egalitarian. Bringing together research by an international and methodologically diverse team of scholars, it analyses the relationship between long-distance trade and the rise of inequality. The volume illustrates how elites used exotic prestige goods to enhance and maintain their elevated social positions in society. Global in scope, it offers case studies of early societies and sites in Europe, Asia, Oceania, North America, and Mesoamerica. Deploying a range of inter-disciplinary and cutting-edge theoretical approaches from a cross-cultural framework, the volume offers new insights and enhances our understanding of socio-political evolution. It will appeal to archaeologists, cultural anthropologists, conflict theorists, and ethnohistorians, as well as economists seeking to understand the nexus between imported luxury items and cultural evolution.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009092814
• Artikelnr.: 66176902

Inhaltsangabe

1. New perspectives on long-distance trade and social complexity Johan
Ling, Richard J. Chacon, and Kristian Kristiansen; Part I. Exchange and
Social Evolution: Forms of Trade in Egalitarian, Transegalitarian, and
Chiefdom Societies: 2. Funnel beaker societies and long-distance trade
Johannes Müller; 3. Stonehenge: Long-distance exchange in Late Neolithic
Britain c.3000-2450 BC Michael Parker Pearson; 4. Secret societies, rock
art, and long-distance exchange in the Nordic Bronze Age: The
supra-regional interaction hypothesis Johan Ling, Richard J. Chacon, and
Yamilette Chacon; 5. Trade, exchange, and the workings of a "prestige"
economy in contact-era New Guinea Paul Roscoe; Part II. The Role That
Specific Institutions and Agents Played in Long-Distance Exchange: 6.
Middle Bronze Age long-distance exchange: amber, early glass, and guest
friendship, xenia Flemming Kaul; 7. Culture heroes, inalienable goods, and
religious sodalities: long distance exchange in eastern North America at
European contact David Dye; 8. Trade and Calusa complexity: achieving
resilience in a changing environment William Marquardt; Part III. The Role
of Political Economy and Elite Control in Long-Distance Exchange: 9. Lapita
long-distance interactions in the Western Pacific: from prestige goods to
prestige practices Matthew Spriggs; 10. Trade and the Hillfort chiefdoms of
Bronze Age Ireland William O'Brien; 11. Long-distance exchange between the
Eastern Mediterranean and Central and Northern Europe in the Bronze Age:
social, political and religious background Rudiger Krause; 12. The
Turquoise Corridor: Mesoamerican prestige technologies and social
complexity in the Greater Southwest Rubén Mendoza; Part IV. Marxian and
Postcolonial Approaches as Well as World System Theory in Relation to Gift
Exchange, and Macro-Regional Exchange: 13. Accumulation and the
articulation of modes of re-production Michael Rowlands; 14. Scandinavia
and Europe in the Earliest Bronze Age: metals, trade, and change Helle
Vandkilde; 15. Long-distance interaction in fourth-millennium BCE Eurasia
Svend Hansen; 16. Following the breadcrumbs: epistemological and
methodological issues in the interpretations of long-distance trade in the
Caribbean Antonio Curet and Jose R. Oliver; Part V. Commentary on
Contributions to This Volume: 17. Political economy perspectives in trade
before and beyond civilizations Brian Hayden and Timothy Earle.