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The construction of value in the ancient world /
"Scholars from Aristotle to Marx and beyond have been fascinated by the question of what constitutes value. The Construction of Value in the Ancient World makes a significant contribution to this ongoing inquiry, bringing together in one comprehensive volume the perspectives of leading anthropo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Los Angeles :
Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press,
©2012.
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| Colección: | Cotsen advanced seminars ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Signifcant stones, signifcant places : monumentality and landscapes in neolithic Western Europe / Chris Scarre
- The negotiation of place-value in the landscape / John Chapman
- Spare values : the decision not to destroy / Susan E. Alcock
- Emplacing value, cultivating order : places of conversion and practices of subordination throughout early Inka state formation (Cusco, Peru) / Steve Kosiba
- The revaluation of landscapes in the Inca empire as Peircean replication / Charles Stanish
- Objectifying the body : the increased value of the ancient Egyptian mummy during the socioeconomic crisis of dynasty / Kathlyn M. Cooney
- From value to meaning, from things to persons : the grave circles of Mycenae reconsidered / Sofia Voutsaki
- Dressing the body in splendor : expression of value by the Moche of ancient Peru / Christopher B. Donnan
- Interpreting the Paracas body and its value in ancient Peru / Lisa DeLeonardis
- The value of chorality in ancient Greece / Leslie Kurke
- Bodies and their values in the early medieval West / Patrick J. Geary.
- Systems of value among material things : the nexus of fungibility and measure / Colin Renfrew
- Money, art, and the construction of value in the ancient Mediterranean / John K. Papadopolous
- The construction of values during the Peruvian formative / Richard L. Burger
- Bronze, jade, gold, and ivory : valuable objects in ancient Sichuan / Rowan Flad
- The value of aesthetic value / James I Porter
- Light and the precious object, or value in the eyes of the Byzantines / Ioli Kalavrezou
- Figurine fashions in formative Mesoamerica / Richard G. Lesure
- From rational to relational : re-configuring value in the Inca empire / Tamara L. Bray : Competing and commensurate values in colonial conditions : how they are expressed and registered in the sixteenth-century Andes / Tom Cummins
- Equivalency values and the command economy of the Ur III period in Mesopotamia / Robert K. Englund
- Constructing value with instruments versus constructing equivalence with mathematics : measuring grains according to early chinese mathematical sources / Karine Chemla
- Recording values in the Inka empire / Gary Urton
- The varieties of ancient Maya numeration and value / David Stuart
- Calculative objects : sustaining symbolic systems in the ancient Mediterranean / Melissa A. Bailey.