MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 2012006301
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008 120224s2012 caua b 001 0 eng
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020 $a9781931745901 (hardcover)$z9781931745918 (jacket)
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050 00 $aCC72.4$b.C74 2012
082 00 $a930$223
245 04 $aThe construction of value in the ancient world /$cedited by John K. Papadopoulos and Gary Urton.
260 $aLos Angeles :$bCotsen Institute of Archaeology Press,$cc2012.
300 $axxviii, 612 p. :$billustrations (some col.), maps ;$c27 cm.
490 0 $aCotsen advanced seminar series
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 536-595) and index.
505 0 $aSignifcant 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.
505 0 $aSystems 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-configuring value in the Inca empire / Tamara L. 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.
650 0 $aSocial archaeology.
650 0 $aSocial values$xHistory.
650 0 $aCivilization, Ancient.
650 0 $aPhilosophy, Ancient.
700 1 $aPapadopoulos, John K.,$d1958-
700 1 $aUrton, Gary,$d1946-