Ancient civilization and trade / edited by Jeremy A. Sabloff and C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky.

Contributor(s): Sabloff, Jeremy A | Lamberg-Karlovsky, C. C, 1937- | School of American Research (Santa Fe, N.M.)Material type: TextTextSeries: School of American Research advanced seminar seriesPublication details: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press c1975. Edition: 1st edDescription: xiv, 485 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 0826303455 : $20.00Subject(s): Commerce -- History | Civilization, Ancient | Commerce -- History -- To 500Genre/Form: HistoryDDC classification: 382/.093 LOC classification: HF357 | .A525
Contents:
pt. 1. Introduction: Trade as action at a distance: questions of integration and communication / Colin Renfrew -- pt. 2. Theoretical background: Karl Polanyi's analysis of long-distance trade and his wider paradigm / George Dalton -- Traders and trade / Karl Polanyi -- The flag follows trade: an essay on the necessary interaction of military and commercial factors / Malcolm C. Webb -- Ancient trade as economics or as ecology / K.C. Chang -- pt. 3. Case studies: Satyānrta in Suvarnadvīpa: from reciprocity to redistribution in ancient Southeast Asia / Paul Wheatley -- Locational analysis and the investigation of Uruk local exchange systems / C.C. Lamberg-Karlovsky -- A model of a pre-Colombian trading center / Jeremy A. Sabloff and David A. Freidel -- The last tango in Mayapán: a tentative trajectory of production-distribution systems / William L. Rathje -- pt. 4. Overview and project: The emerging place of trade in civilizational studies / Robert McC. Adams.
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Papers from a seminar held in Santa Fe, Oct. 28-Nov. 2, 1973.

"A School of American Research book."

Includes bibliographies and index.

pt. 1. Introduction: Trade as action at a distance: questions of integration and communication / Colin Renfrew -- pt. 2. Theoretical background: Karl Polanyi's analysis of long-distance trade and his wider paradigm / George Dalton -- Traders and trade / Karl Polanyi -- The flag follows trade: an essay on the necessary interaction of military and commercial factors / Malcolm C. Webb -- Ancient trade as economics or as ecology / K.C. Chang -- pt. 3. Case studies: Satyānrta in Suvarnadvīpa: from reciprocity to redistribution in ancient Southeast Asia / Paul Wheatley -- Locational analysis and the investigation of Uruk local exchange systems / C.C. Lamberg-Karlovsky -- A model of a pre-Colombian trading center / Jeremy A. Sabloff and David A. Freidel -- The last tango in Mayapán: a tentative trajectory of production-distribution systems / William L. Rathje -- pt. 4. Overview and project: The emerging place of trade in civilizational studies / Robert McC. Adams.