Archaeological perspectives on political economies
By: edited by Gary M. Feinman and Linda M. Nicholas.
Contributors: Feinman, Gary M.; Nicholas, Linda M., 1951-
Series: Foundations of archaeological inquiry
Publisher: University of Utah Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Salt Lake City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
Subjects: Archaeology -- Congresses.; Economic anthropology -- Congresses.; Economic history -- To 500 -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-337)  and index.
Papers originally presented at a roundtable held at the Snowbird Ski and Summer Resort, October 20-21, 2001.
Table of contents: title: Archaeology and political economy : setting the stage / Gary M. Feinman; title: The evolution of chiefdoms : an economic anthropological model / Charles Stanish; title: The economy of the moment : cultural practices and Mississippian chiefdoms / Timothy R. Pauketat; title: Reflections on the early southern Mesopotamian economy / Robert McAdams; title: Structural parameters and sociocultural factors in the economic organization of north Mesopotamian urbanism in the third millennium B.C. / Gil Stein; title: Material resources, capital, and power : the coevolution of society and culture / Andrew Sherratt; title: Roman economies : a paradigm of their own / Glenn R. Storey; title: Early state economic systems in China / Anne P. Underhill and Hui Fang; title: Appropriative economies : labor obligations and luxury goods in ancient Maya societies / Patricia A. Mcanany; title: Unraveling the prehispanic highland Mesoamerican economy : production, exchange, and consumption in the classic period Valley of Oaxaca / Gary M. Feinman and Linda M. Nicholas; title: Craft economies of ancient Andean states / Cathy Lynne Costin; title: Political economy in the historic period chiefdoms and states of Southeast Asia / Laura Lee Junker; title: Comparative insights into the ancient political economies of West Africa / Ann Brower Stahl.