Merchants, Markets, and Exchange in the Pre-Columbian World

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-0-88402-386-9
Verlag: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection

Buch, Englisch, 480 Seiten, Format (B × H): 222 mm x 287 mm, Gewicht: 1598 g

Reihe: Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Symposia and Colloquia

Merchants, Markets, and Exchange in the Pre-Columbian World examines the structure, scale, and complexity of economic systems in the pre-Hispanic Americas, with a focus on the central highlands of Mexico, the Maya Lowlands, and the central Andes. Civilization in each region was characterized by complex political and religious institutions, highly skilled craft production, and the long-distance movement of finished goods. Scholars have long focused on the differences in economic organization between these civilizations. Societies in the Mexican highlands are recognized as having a highly commercial economy centered around one of the world’s most complex market systems; those of the Maya region are characterized as having reciprocal exchange networks and periodic marketplaces that supplemented the dominant role of the palace; and those of the central Andes are recognized as having multiple forms of resource distribution, including household-to-household reciprocity, barter, environmental complementarity, and limited market exchange. Essays in this volume examine various dimensions of these ancient economies, including the presence of marketplaces, the operation of merchants (and other individuals) who exchanged and moved goods across space, the role of artisans who produced goods as part of their livelihood, and the trade and distribution networks through which goods were bought, sold, and exchanged.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hirth, Kenneth G.

Pillsbury, Joanne

Beliaev, Dmitri

Blanton, Richard E.

Burger, Richard L.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Beliaev, Dmitri

Blanton, Richard E.

Burger, Richard L.

Carballo, David M.

Coben, Lawrence S.

Dillehay, Tom D.

Freidel, David A.

Goldstein, Paul S.

Gutiérrez, Gerardo

Isaac, Barry L.

Kovacevich, Brigitte

Masson, Marilyn A.

Mayer, Enrique

McAnany, Patricia A.

Nichols, Deborah L.

Nielsen, Axel E.

Stanish, Charles

Tokovinine, Alexandre

Topic, John R.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie

Über Autor(innen)

Pillsbury, Joanne
Joanne Pillsbury is Andrall E. Pearson Curator in the Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Burger, Richard L.
Richard L. Burger is the Charles J. MacCurdy Professor of Anthropology at Yale University and Curator of South American Archaeology at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History.

Dillehay, Tom D.
Tom D. Dillehay is Professor of Anthropology at Vanderbilt University.

Masson, Marilyn A.
Marilyn A. Masson is Professor and Chair of Anthropology at the University at Albany, State University of New York.

Blanton, Richard E.
Richard E. Blanton is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Purdue University.

McAnany, Patricia A.
Patricia A. McAnany is Kenan Eminent Professor and Chair of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Carballo, David M.
David M. Carballo is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Boston University.

Tokovinine, Alexandre
Alexandre Tokovinine is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Alabama.

Hirth, Kenneth G.
Kenneth G. Hirth is Professor of Anthropology at Penn State University.