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The construction of value in the ancient world
Title
The construction of value in the ancient world / edited by John K. Papadopoulos and Gary Urton.
ISBN
9781931745901 (hardcover)
1931745900 (hardcover)
9781931745918 (pbk.)
1931745919 (pbk.)
Published
Los Angeles : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press/University of California, c2012.
Physical Description
xxviii, 612 p., [23] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 27 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 20, 2013
Series
Cotsen advanced seminar series ; 5
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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-conþguring value in the Inca empire / Tamara 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.
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