Political Economy, Neoliberalism, and the Prehistoric Economies of Latin America

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POLITICAL ECONOMY, NEOLIBERALISM, AND THE PREHISTORIC ECONOMIES OF LATIN AMERICA
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PREFACE
UNDERSTANDING INTERSECTIONS OF DEVELOPMENT, NEOLIBERALISM, AND PREHISTORIC ECONOMIES: AN OVERVIEW OF REA VOLUME 32
PART I: VIEWING THE POLITICAL ECONOMY
	SWEATSHOP EXCHANGES: GIFTS AND GIVING IN THE GLOBAL FACTORY
		THE HIDDEN ABODES OF GLOBAL MANUFACTURING
		’EVERYBODY GIVES’ (CO-OPERATION AND CAPITAL’S FREE GIFT)
		RECIPROCITY AND RECOGNITION
		’SOAP’ AND THE ’GIFT OF LABOUR’
		SWEATSHOP EXCHANGES: CONCLUDING COMMENTS
		ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
		REFERENCES
	SEEKING ABUNDANCE: CONSUMPTION AS A MOTIVATING FACTOR IN CITIES PAST AND PRESENT
		INTRODUCTION
		ABUNDANCE AS AN ECONOMIC PRINCIPLE
		ABUNDANCE AND DECISION-MAKING
		CITIES AS THE LOCUS OF ACCELERATED PATTERNS OF POSSESSION, INHERITANCE, AND VALUE
		DISCUSSION
		CONCLUSIONS
		ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
		REFERENCES
	ECONOMIC ANTHROPOLOGY AFTER THE GREAT DEBATE: THE ROLE AND EVOLUTION OF INSTITUTIONALIST THOUGHT
		INTRODUCTION
		OVERVIEW OF THE ‘‘GREAT DEBATE’’
		THE POSTDEBATE EVOLUTION OF THE ‘‘OLD’’ INSTITUTIONALIST POSITION
		THE ROLE OF ‘‘NEW’’ INSTITUTIONAL ECONOMIC ANTHROPOLOGY IN THE WAKE OF THE ‘‘GREAT DEBATE’’
		A CRITICAL EVALUATION OF ‘‘NEW’’ INSTITUTIONALISM FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF ECONOMIC ANTHROPOLOGY
		BRINGING CLOSURE TO THE DEBATE?
		CONCLUDING REMARKS
		NOTES
		ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
		REFERENCES
	PROTESTANT ETHIC AND PROSPERITY: VEGETABLE PRODUCTION IN ALMOLONGA, GUATEMALA
		PROTESTANTISM IN THE ‘‘LAND OF ETERNAL SPRING’’ – GUATEMALA
		THE CASE OF ALMOLONGA
		FINAL REMARKS
		NOTES
		ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
		REFERENCES
	SIMPLE FINANCIAL ECONOMIC MODELS OF PREHISTORIC FREMONT MAIZE STORAGE AND AN ASSESSMENT OF EXTERNAL THREAT
		INTRODUCTION
		A SIMPLE ONE-PERIOD FINANCIAL MODEL
		A SPECIAL CASE
		A MULTIPERIOD MODEL OF GRANARY CONSTRUCTION
		CONCLUSION
		NOTES
		ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
		REFERENCES
PART II: CRITIQUES OF NEOLIBERALISM
	OF COYOTES, CROSSINGS, AND COOPERATION: SOCIAL CAPITAL AND WOMEN’S MIGRATION AT THE MARGINS OF THE STATE
		INTRODUCTION
		SOCIAL CAPITAL
		THE ‘‘DOWNSIDE’’ OF SOCIAL CAPITAL
		SOCIAL CAPITAL AND WOMEN’S MIGRATION
		STRETCHING THE LIMITS OF SOCIAL CAPITAL
		CASE STUDIES IN SOCIAL CAPITAL AND WOMEN’S MIGRATION ON THE BORDER
		CONCLUSION
		NOTES
		REFERENCES
	CULTURE TRUMPS REASON: HOW WALL STREET MANIPULATED THE AMERICAN DREAM TO ENRICH ITSELF AND WHY THE VICTIMS OF THE SCAM WERE PUT OUT ON THE STREET WHILE THE PERPETRATORS WERE RESCUED BY THE GOVERNMENT
		INTRODUCTION
		THE GREAT RECESSION
		JUST AND UNJUST DESERTS
		THE HAVES AND HAVE MORES
		THE LEFT WITHOUT AND UNDESERVING
		CONCLUSION
		NOTES
		REFERENCES
PART III: PREHISTORIC ECONOMIES OF LATIN AMERICA
	A THEORY OF THE ANCIENT MESOAMERICAN ECONOMY
		MESOAMERICA: THE CONTEXT
		METHOD
		THEORY
		RECONNECTING ECONOMY TO SOCIETY
		MESOAMERICA AS A MARKET ECONOMY
		ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
		REFERENCES
	THE LATE PREHISPANIC ECONOMY OF THE VALLEY OF OAXACA, MEXICO: WEAVING THREADS FROM DATA, THEORY, AND SUBSEQUENT HISTORY
		THEORETICAL INTRODUCTION
		EARLY PERSPECTIVES ON THE ANCIENT MESOAMERICAN ECONOMY
		NEW RESEARCH
		BACKGROUND TO THE VALLEY OF OAXACA
		EMPIRICAL CHALLENGES TO TRADITIONAL PERSPECTIVES
		TAKING STOCK AND LOOKING FORWARD
		ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
		REFERENCES
	WEALTH ON THE HOOF: CAMELID FAUNAL REMAINS AND SUBSISTENCE PRACTICES IN JACHAKALA, BOLIVIA
		MEAT IN ITS SOCIAL CONTEXT
		THE SITE OF JACHAKALA
		SITE HISTORY
		THE THREE ZONES
		INTERZONAL COMPARISONS
		GOALS AND METHODS OF FAUNAL ANALYSIS
		SORTING JACHAKALA’S FAUNA
		RESULTS OF THE INTERZONAL FAUNAL ANALYSIS
		SYNCHRONIC PATTERNS IN MEAT CONSUMPTION
		DIACHRONIC FAUNAL COMPARISONS
		INVOLVEMENT WITH CAMELIDS
		FOOD AND COMPLEXITY AT JACHAKALA AND BEYOND
		REFERENCES
	INTERREGIONAL INTERACTION AND SOCIAL CHANGE AT EL DORNAJO
		INTRODUCTION
		SITE METHODOLOGY
		DEVELOPMENTAL TRAJECTORY
		INTERREGIONAL INTERACTION AND SOCIAL CHANGE
		LINES OF INQUIRY
		INTERREGIONAL INTERACTION AT EL DORNAJO
		ELITE ACTIVITIES
		LOCAL CONDITIONS AND THE EMERGENCE OF A PRESTIGE ECONOMY
		SUMMARY
		CONCLUSIONS AND DISCUSSION
		REFERENCES