Surplus : the politics of production and the strategies of everyday life /

Surplus : the politics of production and the strategies of everyday life / edited by Christopher T. Morehart and Kristin De Lucia. - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographical references.

Surplus : the politics of production and the strategies of everyday and life : an introduction / Christopher T. Morehart and Kristin De Lucia -- The cost of conquest : assessing the impact of Inka tribute demands on the Wanka of Highland Peru / Cathy L. Costin -- Surplus and social change : the production of household and field in pre-Aztec Central Mexico / Kristin De Lucia and Christopher T. Morehart -- Surplus in the Indus civilization : agricultural choices, social relations, political effects / Heather M.-L. Miller -- Surplus from below : self-organization of production in early Sweden / T.L. Thurston -- From surplus land to surplus production in the Viking age settlement of Iceland / Douglas J. Bolender -- Surplus capture in contrasting modes of religiosity : perspectives from sixteenth century Mesoamerica / E. Christian Wells -- Surplus houses : palace politics in the bight of Benin West Africa, 1650-1727 A.D. / Neil L. Norman -- Surplus labor, ceremonial feasting and social inequality at Cahokia : a study in social process / James A. Brown and John E. Kelly -- The sociality of surplus among late Archaic hunter-gatherers of coastal Georgia / Victor D. Thompson and Christopher R. Moore -- The transactional dynamics of surplus in landscapes of enslavement : scalar perspectives from interstitial West Africa / Ann B. Stahl -- Conclusions: Surplus and the political economy in prehistory / Timothy Earle.

"Placing the concept of surplus at the forefront of archaeological discussions on production, consumption, power, strategy, and change, this volume reaches beyond conventional ways of thinking about top-down or bottom-up models and offers a comparative framework to examine surplus, generating new questions and methodologies to elucidate the social and political economies of the past"--

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Social archaeology.
Ethnoarchaeology.
Surplus (Economics)--Social aspects--History.
Surplus (Economics)--Political aspects--History.
Production (Economic theory)--History.
Economics--History--To 1800.
Agriculture--History.
Social change--History.
Household archaeology.
Community archaeology.
Archéologie sociale.
Ethnoarchéologie.
Surplus (Économie politique)--Aspect social--Histoire.
Surplus (Économie politique)--Aspect politique--Histoire.
Production--Histoire.
Économie politique--Histoire--Jusqu'à 1800.
Agriculture--Histoire.
Archéologie de la maison.
Archéologie communautaire.
ethnoarchaeology.
public archaeology.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--Industries--General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--General.
Agriculture.
Community archaeology.
Economics.
Ethnoarchaeology.
Household archaeology.
Production (Economic theory)
Social archaeology.
Social change.
Surplus (Economics)--Political aspects.


Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.

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