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The Historical Archaeology of Shadow and Intimate Economies (Hardcover)
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The Historical Archaeology of Shadow and Intimate Economies (Hardcover)
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Emphasizing the important social relationships that form between
people who participate in small-scale economic transactions,
contributors to this volume explore often-overlooked networks of
intimate and shadow economies?terms used to describe trade that
takes place outside formal market systems. Case studies from a
variety of historical contexts around the world reveal the ways
such transactions have created community and identity, subverted
power relations, and helped people adopt new social realities. In
Maine, woven baskets sold by Native American artisans to
Euroamerican consumers have supported Native strategies for
cultural survival and agency. Alcohol exchanged by Scandinavian
merchants for furs and skins enabled their indigenous trading
partners to expand social webs that contested colonialism. Slave
households on Caribbean sugar plantations contain evidence for
trade networks that extended far beyond the boundaries of
individual plantations. From moonshiners in Appalachia to seal
hunters in Antarctica, the examples in this volume show how
historical archaeologists can use the concept of intimate economies
to uncover deeply meaningful connections that exist beyond the
traditional framework of global capitalism.
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