Making Value, Making Meaning: Techn� in the Pre-Columbian World adopts the concept of techn� as an analytic tool useful for understanding how the production process created value and meaning for social valuables and public monuments in complex societies in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica and the Andes. In doing so, the archaeologists and art historians contributing to this volume add to the study of ancient artisans and craftsmanship through the exploration of how technology, the organisation of production, artisan identity, and the deployment of esoteric knowledge factored into the creation of symbolically and politically charged material culture.

The wide-ranging case studies in this volume demonstrate that the concept of techne thorough and masterful knowledge of a specific field deployed to create things with social utility is a powerful one for understanding the political economy of craft production and the role of objects in social life and how their creation and use helps to generate their social, political, and spiritual power.

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Cathy Lynne Costin is Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, California State University, Northridge.

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