Modes of production and archaeology

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Modes of production and archaeology

edited by Robert M. Rosenswig and Jerimy J. Cunningham

University Press of Florida, c2017

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

  • Introducing modes of production in archaeology / Robert M. Rosenswig and Jerimy J. Cunningham
  • 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 Álvarez and Ivan Briz Godino
  • Kin-mode contradictions, crises, and transformations in the archaic lower Mississippi valley / Bradley E. Ensor
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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This volume explains how archaeologists can use Karl Marx and Frederick Engels' mode of production concept to study long-term patterns in human society. Modes of production describes how labor is organized to create surplus which is then used for political purposes. This type of analysis allows archaeologists to compare and contrast peoples across distant continents and eras, from hunter-gatherer groups to early agriculturalists to nation-states. Presenting a range of different perspectives from researchers working in a wide variety of societies and time periods, this volume clearly demonstrates why historical materialism matters to the field of archaeology.

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