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Recent Trends in Theorizing Prehispanic Mesoamerican Economies

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Theoretical frames for modeling prehispanic Mesoamerican economies have been informed mostly by political economy or agency approaches. Political economy models examine the ways in which power is constructed and exercised through the manipulation of material transfers, mainly production and distribution. Research along these lines emphasizes regional redistribution, wealth and staple finance, debt and reciprocity, and regional integration through core/periphery relations. Agency models, on the other hand, explore the social aspects of manufacture, circulation, and consumption to infer the processes by which power is negotiated and contested. Work using this framework focuses on the manner by which meaning and value are assigned to, and become fixed in, social valuables, as well as the moral and emotional dimensions of allocation and consumption. Political economy and agency approaches are converging in Mesoamerican research to forge a new, hybrid theoretical construct, “ritual economy,” which strikes a balance between formalist and substantivist views by considering the ways that belief systems articulate with economic systems in the management of meanings and the shaping of interpretations.

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I would like to thank Gary M. Feinman and T. Douglas Price for their invitation to prepare this article. Many of the ideas presented here derive from productive dialog with friends and colleagues over the past few years, especially Frances F. Berdan, John K. Chance, George L. Cowgill, Karla L. Davis-Salazar, Arthur A. Demarest, William L. Fash, Patricia A. McAnany, Ben A. Nelson, Enrique Rodríguez-Alegría, Edward M. Schortman, Barbara L. Stark, Patricia A. Urban, and John M. Watanabe. I am particularly grateful to Davis-Salazar, McAnany, Schortman, Urban, Elizabeth M. Brumfiel, Heather I. McKillop, and Michael E. Smith, who shared with me information about their research, copies of their publications, and their thoughts on Mesoamerican economies. Davis-Salazar, Feinman, Stephen A. Kowalewski, Schortman, Smith, and three anonymous reviewers also kindly read drafts of this article and provided very useful comments that improved the clarity and substance of my arguments.

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Wells, E.C. Recent Trends in Theorizing Prehispanic Mesoamerican Economies. J Archaeol Res 14, 265–312 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10814-006-9006-3

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