| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 300 pages) |
| Contents |
The intimate economic perspective / James A. Nyman and Kevin Fogle -- Potatoes, baskets, and power: indigenous persistence in Maine / James A. Nyman -- Webs of drinking: alcohol, colonialism, and social relationships in early modern Sápmi / Sami Lakomäki, Timo Ylimaunu, and Ritva Kylli -- A round for all my friends: understanding the economic impact of moonshine production / Kirk French -- The pitch tar mill: the material memory of a specialized production site in the town of Oulu, Finland / Marika Hyttinen, Timo Ylimaunu, Titta Kallio-Seppä, Paul R. Mullins, and Markku Kuorilehto -- Caribbean contradictions: entangled networks, slavery, and the French West Indies / Heather Gibson and Kenneth G. Kelly -- Blurred boundaries: internal and illicit plantation economies / Kevin R. Fogle -- Intimacies and attachments: households and hucksters on the Barbadian plantation / Matthew C. Reilly -- Inside and outside capitalism: the life of sealers on the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica / Melisa Salerno, Jimena Cruz, and Andrés Zarankin -- Surf and turf: understanding montaukett economic strategies through the whaling era / Allison Manfra McGovern -- Intimacies of glass in early eighteenth-century Louisiana / Diana DiPaolo Loren -- Clandestine, ephemeral, anonymous? myths and actualities of the intimate economy of a nineteenth-century Boston brothel / Jade Luiz -- Uncovering an early seventeenth-century token currency scheme at Jamestown, Virginia / Beverly A. Straube -- Rag, stone, water: a material study of holy wells in contemporary Ireland / Eleanor Conlin Casella -- Concluding thoughts: reframing the archaeology of intimate economies / Mary C. Beaudry |
| Summary |
This volume develops the concept of intimate economies by showing how contemporary historical archaeologists apply the perspective to their research. The chapters in this volume address intimate economies across multiple historical contexts, and through various case studies provide the reader with a rich, evocative exploration of a concept of topical importance to current concerns and issues |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central platform, viewed September 14, 2022) |
| Subject |
Informal sector (Economics) -- History
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Capitalism -- Social aspects -- History
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Organized crime -- History
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Business enterprises -- Corrupt practices -- History
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- General.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Reference.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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Business enterprises -- Corrupt practices
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Capitalism -- Social aspects
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Informal sector (Economics)
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Organized crime
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Nyman, James A., editor.
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Fogle, Kevin R., editor.
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Beaudry, Mary Carolyn, 1950- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780813057101 |
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0813057108 |
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