The Anthropologies of Trade and Exchange: An Essay on Kirikir'i·s and Southern Plains Political Economy

The social history of the Kirikir'i·s peoples is dependent on traditional history, archaeology, ethnohistory, cultural anthropology, and linguistics. By using these different lines of evidence, this paper explores one of the primary models (Vehik's "conflict and prestige" model)...

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Veröffentlicht in:Plains anthropologist 2008-11, Vol.53 (208), p.415-430
1. Verfasser: Baugh, Timothy G.
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:The social history of the Kirikir'i·s peoples is dependent on traditional history, archaeology, ethnohistory, cultural anthropology, and linguistics. By using these different lines of evidence, this paper explores one of the primary models (Vehik's "conflict and prestige" model) used to explain protohistoric Kirikir'i·s political development. Because of Vehik's emphasis on warfare and prestige, certain components of Kirikir'i·s social history are either excluded or disregarded. As a result, a political economy perspective is advocated which sees the Protohistoric period as a dynamic era beginning prior to the arrival of Europeans but which is able to account for changes after the appearance of these aliens. Only by unraveling the geopolitical impact of alien interaction as part of the social historical dynamic upon the indigenous societal systems of the Plains, Southwest, and Southeast will scholars of the Protohistoric period be able to understand both the processual and post-processual components of cultural interaction, exchange, and political development.
ISSN:0032-0447
2052-546X
DOI:10.1179/pan.2008.031