Bronze Age economics : the beginnings of political economies /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Earle, Timothy K.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 2002.
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Table of 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.