Surplus

Description:

"Placing the concept of surplus at the forefront of archaeological discussions on production, consumption, power, strategy, and change, this volume reaches beyond conventional ways of thinking about top-down or bottom-up models and offers a comparative framework to examine surplus, generating new questions and methodologies to elucidate the social and political economies of the past"--

subjects: Social archaeology,  Ethnoarchaeology,  Economics, sociological aspects,  Economics, political aspects,  Production (economic theory),  Economics, history,  Agriculture, history,  Social change,  Surplus (Economics),  History,  Economics,  Agriculture,  Household archaeology,  Community archaeology,  Social aspects,  Political aspects