| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 452 pages) : illustrations |
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Anthropology online
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| Contents |
Political economics of chiefdoms and agrarian states -- The ecology and politics of primitive valuables -- Chiefdoms in archaeological and ethnohistorical perspectives -- A reappraisal of redistribution: complex Hawaiian chiefdoms -- Prehistoric irrigation in the Hawaiian Islands: an evaluation of evolutionary significance -- Specialization and the production of wealth: Hawaiian chiefdoms and the Inka empire -- Style and iconography as legitimation in complex chiefdoms -- Staple finance, wealth finance, and storage in the Inka political economy -- Wealth finance in the Inka empire: evidence from the Calchaquí Valley, Argentina -- Exchange and social stratification in the Andes -- Status distinction and legitimation of power as reflected in changing patterns of consumption in late prehispanic Peru -- The Bronze Age economy of Thy: finance in a networked chiefdom -- Property rights and the evolution of chiefdoms -- Ideology, materialization, and power strategies |
| Summary |
This collection of Timothy Earle's major essays provides a comparative analysis of prehistoric economies. They look at trajectories of economic development as they affect, and are affected by, political institutions |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-442) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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Bronze age.
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Economic anthropology.
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Chiefdoms.
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Social stratification.
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social stratification.
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Bronze Age.
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Bronze age.
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Chiefdoms.
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Economic anthropology.
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Social stratification.
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Economische antropologie.
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Bronstijd.
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Sociale stratificatie.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780429970542 |
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0429970544 |
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9780429981623 |
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0429981627 |
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