"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 bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Discussion / Barry L. Isaac. Merchants, markets, and exchange in the Pre-Columbian world / Kenneth G. Hirth and Joanne Pillsbury -- Cooperation and the moral economy of the marketplace / Richard E. Blanton -- Merchants and merchandise : the archaeology of Aztec commerce at Otumba, Mexico / Deborah L. Nichols -- The merchant's world : commercial diversity and the economics of interregional exchange in highland Mesoamerica / Kenneth G. Hirth -- The social organization of craft production and interregional exchange at Teotihuacan / David M. Carballo -- Negotiating Aztec tributary demands in the Tribute Record of Tlapa / Gerardo GutieĢrrez -- People of the road : traders and travelers in ancient Maya words and images / Alexandre Tokovinine and Dmitri Beliaev -- Wide open spaces : a long view of the importance of Maya market exchange / Marilyn A. Masson and David A. Freidel -- Artisans, ikatz, and statecraft : provisioning Classic Maya royal courts / Patricia A. McAnany -- Craft production and distribution in the Maya lowlands : a jade case study / Brigitte Kovacevich -- Economic mobility, exchange, and order in the Andes / Tom D. Dillehay -- In the realm of the Incas / Enrique Mayer -- In the realm of the Incas : an archaeological reconsideration of household exchange, long-distance trade, and marketplaces in the pre-Hispanic Central Andes / Richard L. Burger -- Exchange on the equatorial frontier : a comparison of Ecuador and Northern Peru / John R. Topic -- Embedded Andean economic systems and the expansive Tiwanaku state : a case for a state without market exchange / Paul S. Goldstein -- Circulating objects and the constitution of South Andean society (500 BC-AD 1550) / Axel E. Nielsen -- Barter markets in the pre-Hispanic Andes / Charles Stanish and Lawrence S. Coben -- Discussion / Barry L. Isaac.
Series:
Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian symposia and colloquia
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