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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The study of ancient political economies has rightfully emerged as a major focus on modern archaeological inquiry, and this highly recommended volume, with its many case examples, is an excellent primer on current thinking about this key subject."—Jeremy Sabloff, University of Pennsylvania
Table of ContentsList of Figures
List of Tables
Preface
1. Archaeology and Political Economy: Setting the Stage
2. The Evolution of of Chiefdoms: An Economic Anthropological Model
3. The Economy of the Moment: Cultural Practices and Mississippian Chiefdoms
4. Reflections on the Early Southern Mesopotamian Economy
5. Structural Parameters and Sociocultural Factors in the Economic Organization of North Mesopotamian Urbanism in the Third Millennium B.C.
6. Material Resources, Capital, and Power: The Coevolution of Society and Culture
7. Roman Economies: A Paradigm of Their Own
8. Early State Economic Systems of China
9. Appropriative Economies: Labor Obligations and Luxury Goods in Ancient Maya Society
10. Unraveling the Prehispanic Highland Mesoamerican Economy: Production, Exchange, and Consumption in the Classic Period Valley of Oaxaca
11. Craft Economies of Ancient Andean States
12. Political Economy in the Historic Period Chiefdoms and States of Southeast Asia
13. Comparative Insights into the Ancient Political Economies of West Africa
References
Contributors
Index
