{"product_id":"surplus-christopher-t-morehart-9781607323716","title":"Surplus: The Politics of Production and the Strategies of Everyday Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe concept of surplus captures the politics of production and also conveys the active material means by which people develop the strategies to navigate everyday life. \u003ci\u003eSurplus: The Politics of Production and the Strategies of Everyday Life\u003c\/i\u003e examines how surpluses affected ancient economies, governments, and households in civilizations across Mesoamerica, the Southwest United States, the Andes, Northern Europe, West Africa, Mesopotamia, and eastern Asia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA hallmark of archaeological research on sociopolitical complexity, surplus is central to theories of political inequality and institutional finance. This book investigates surplus as a macro-scalar process on which states or other complex political formations depend and considers how past people--differentially positioned based on age, class, gender, ethnicity, role, and goal--produced, modified, and mobilized their social and physical worlds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlacing 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Contributors include Douglas J. Bolender, James A. Brown, Cathy L. Costin, Kristin De Lucia, Timothy Earle, John E. Kelly, Heather M. L. Miller, Christopher R. Moore, Christopher T. Morehart, Neil L. Norman, Ann B. Stahl, Victor D. Thompson, T. L. Thurston, and E. Christian Wells. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christopher T. Morehart\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1607323710\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781607323716\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Colorado\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.90d","brand":"Christopher T. Morehart","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48439823270143,"sku":"9781607323716","price":40.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_45cf6f36-7311-4940-8c84-74cddeb4d7b8.jpg?v=1777179438","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/surplus-christopher-t-morehart-9781607323716","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}