Title:
Merchants, markets, and exchange in the Pre-Columbian world / Kenneth G. Hirth and Joanne Pillsbury, editors.
Author:
Pre-Columbian Studies Symposium "Merchants, Trade, and Exchange in the Pre-Columbian World" (2010 : Washington, D.C.)
Hirth, Kenn.
Pillsbury, Joanne.
Publication Information:
Washington, DC : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, c2013.
Call Number:
F1219.3 .C6 P74 2013
ISBN:
9780884023869
Series:
Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian symposia and colloquia
Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian symposia and colloquia.
Physical Description:
vii 472 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
General Note:
"Volume based on papers presented at the Pre-Columbian Studies symposium 'Merchants, Trade, and Exchange in the Pre-Columbian World, ' held at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, D.C., on October 8-9, 2010"--Title page verso.
Includes index.
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Contents:
Preface and acknowledgments / Merchants, markets, and exchange in the Pre-Columbian world / Cooperation and the moral economy of the marketplace / Merchants and merchandise : the archaeology of Aztec commerce at Otumba, Mexico / The merchant's world : commercial diversity and the economics of interregional exchange in highland Mesoamerica / The social organization of craft production and interregional exchange at Teotihuacan / Negotiating Aztec tributary demands in the Tribute Record of Tlapa / People of the road : traders and travelers in ancient Maya words and images / Wide open spaces : a long view of the importance of Maya market exchange / Artisans, ikatz, and statecraft : provisioning Classic Maya royal courts / Craft production and distribution in the Maya lowlands : a jade case study / Economic mobility, exchange, and order in the Andes / In the realm of the Incas / In the realm of the Incas : an archaeological reconsideration of household exchange, long-distance trade, and marketplaces in the pre-Hispanic Central Andes / Exchange on the equatorial frontier : a comparison of Ecuador and Northern Peru / Embedded Andean economic systems and the expansive Tiwanaku state : a case for a state without market exchange / Circulating objects and the constitution of South Andean society (500 BC-AD 1550) / Barter markets in the pre-Hispanic Andes / Discussion
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