"Reconceptualizing the Peasantry looks at rural society in general and considers the problematic distinction between rural and urban. Most definitions of and debates about peasants have focused on their presumed social, economic, cultural, and political characteristics, but Kear…
by Earle, Timothy K., Society for American Archaeology, Ericson, Jonathon E., Prehistoric Raw Material Trade and Archaeo-economic Processes, San Francisco), Archaeoeconomics - Part I, Annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco), Annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Dallas, Tex.)
This book concerns barter, a transaction in which objects are exchanged directly for one another without the use of money. Economists treat barter as an inefficient alternative to market exchange, and assume that it is normal only in 'primitive' economies or marks the breakdown …
