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CATEGORIES:Department of Archaeology - Garrod seminar series
SUMMARY:Toward an acknowledgement of the invisible social 
 metabolism of prestige-goods exchange in the Prehi
 spanic Andes - Prof Alf Hornborg\, Lunds Universit
 et
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URL:http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/173147
DESCRIPTION:The presentation will deal with questions of polit
 ical economy raised by an application of world-sys
 tems perspectives to the kingdoms of the prehispan
 ic Andes. Pivotal to their social hierarchies were
  artifacts such as ornaments made from distantly d
 erived marine shells and tropical bird feathers. B
 eyond their symbolic significance\, we must acknow
 ledge the great quantities of labour that were exp
 ended in the extraction and transports of such art
 ifacts\, as well as their formidable potential in 
 catalyzing massive mobilisation of labour and reso
 urces at the receiving end. World-system theorists
  tend to underestimate the material\, socio-metabo
 lic role of such premodern ’preciosities’ (or pres
 tige goods). The essential conditions for procurin
 g them may have been almost as invisible to their 
 owners as to modern historians and archaeologists.
  In emphasizing the tangibility and cultural semio
 tics of ancient artifacts\, economic historians an
 d archaeologists risk duplicating the commodity fe
 tishism of mainstream economists\, who focus on th
 e exchange values of trade goods while systematica
 lly neglecting the transfers of embodied labour\, 
 land\, energy\, and materials that they represent.
  Socially decontextualized artifacts thus pervasiv
 ely obscure the extensive networks of relations of
  which they are expressions. Estimating the scale 
 of such invisible resource flows enables us to the
 orize ecologically unequal exchange in both premod
 ern and modern world-systems.  \n\nRegister: https
 ://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMld-usqTot
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LOCATION:Zoom
CONTACT:Lydia Clough
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