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Hirth, Kenneth

 
9781108494700: The Organization of Ancient Economies: A Global Perspective
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1108494706 ISBN 13 : 9781108494700
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2020

Synopsis

In this book, Kenneth Hirth provides a comparative view of the organization of ancient and premodern society and economy. Hirth establishes that humans adapted to their environments, not as individuals but in the social groups where they lived and worked out the details of their livelihoods. He explores the variation in economic organization used by simple and complex societies to procure, produce, and distribute resources required by both individual households and the social and political institutions that they supported. Drawing on a wealth of archaeological, historic, and ethnographic information, he develops and applies an analytical framework for studying ancient societies that range from the hunting and gathering groups of native North America, to the large state societies of both the New and Old Worlds. Hirth demonstrates that despite differences in transportation and communication technologies, the economic organization of ancient and modern societies are not as different as we sometimes think.

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À propos de l'auteur

Kenneth Hirth is Professor of Anthropology at Pennsylvania State University. An economic anthropologist who has conducted archaeological research in Mexico, Honduras, Peru, and Turkey that has spanned 12,000 years of human development, he has authored, edited, and co-authored nineteen books on different aspects of Mesoamerican society and economy. Hirth is currently a Senior Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks Library and Research Collections in Washington, DC. He has received National Geographic Society's Career Achievement Award in Archaeology (2000) and the Excellence in Lithic Studies Award from the Society of American Archaeology (1998).

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1108494706
ISBN 13 
9781108494700
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
462
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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