Introducing modes of production in archaeology / Robert M. Rosenswig and Jerimy J. Cunningham -- Hunter-gatherer studies -- Modes of production in Southern California at the end of the eighteenth century / Thomas C. Patterson -- Applying modes of production analysis to non-state, or anarchic, societies: shifting from historical epochs to seasonal microscale / Bill Angelbeck -- Early agricultural modes of production in Mesoamerica: new insights from southern and central Mexico / Guillermo Acosta Ochoa -- Production and consumption: theory, methodology, and lithic analysis / Myrian Alvarez and Ivan Briz Godino -- Kin-mode contradictions, crises, and transformations in the archaic lower mississippi valley / Bradley E. Ensor -- Pre-state agriculturalists -- The tributary mode of production and justifying ideologies: evaluating the Wolf-Trigger Hypothesis / Robert M. Rosenswig -- The ritual mode of production in the casas grandes social field / Jerimy J. Cunningham -- Bronze economy and mode of production: the role of comparative advantages in temperate Europe during the Bronze Age / Johan Ling, Per Cornell, and Kristian Kristiansen -- Ancient states -- Social formations analysis: modes, class, gender, and the multiple contexts for agency / Bradley E. Ensor -- Re-envisioning prehispanic Mesoamerican economies: modes of production, fiscal foundations of collective action, and conceptual legacies / Gary M. Feinman and Linda M. Nicholas -- Modern states -- Colonialism, articulation, and modes of production at an early seventeenth-century english colony in the Western Caribbean / Charles E. Orser Jr -- The plantation mode of production / James A. Delle.
Summary:
This volume challenges the historical materialistic, non-capitalist modes that are used by archaeologists as not all that useful and instead considers how social labor is organized to transform nature into culturally refined and useful resources and how this can either maintain or change a culture. Rather than describe what a society is, using the theoretical framework of Marx and materialism, a mode of production approach explores what a society does in a more dynamic sense.
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