Inhaltsangabe:
  • Preface and acknowledgments / Joanne Pillsbury
  • Merchants, markets, and exchange in the Pre-Columbian world / Kenneth G. Hirth and Joanne Pillsbury
  • Cooperation and the moral economy of the marketplace / Richard E. Blanton
  • Merchants and merchandise : the archaeology of Aztec commerce at Otumba, Mexico / Deborah L. Nichols
  • The merchant's world : commercial diversity and the economics of interregional exchange in highland Mesoamerica / Kenneth G. Hirth
  • The social organization of craft production and interregional exchange at Teotihuacan / David M. Carballo
  • Negotiating Aztec tributary demands in the Tribute Record of Tlapa / Gerardo Gutiérrez
  • People of the road : traders and travelers in ancient Maya words and images / Alexandre Tokovinine and Dmitri Beliaev
  • Wide open spaces : a long view of the importance of Maya market exchange / Marilyn A. Masson and David A. Freidel
  • Artisans, ikatz, and statecraft : provisioning Classic Maya royal courts / Patricia A. McAnany
  • Craft production and distribution in the Maya lowlands : a jade case study / Brigitte Kovacevich
  • Economic mobility, exchange, and order in the Andes / Tom D. Dillehay
  • In the realm of the Incas / Enrique Mayer
  • In the realm of the Incas : an archaeological reconsideration of household exchange, long-distance trade, and marketplaces in the pre-Hispanic Central Andes / Richard L. Burger
  • Exchange on the equatorial frontier : a comparison of Ecuador and Northern Peru / John R. Topic
  • Embedded Andean economic systems and the expansive Tiwanaku state : a case for a state without market exchange / Paul S. Goldstein
  • Circulating objects and the constitution of South Andean society (500 BC-AD 1550) / Axel E. Nielsen
  • Barter markets in the pre-Hispanic Andes / Charles Stanish and Lawrence S. Coben.