Abstract
This paper applies the interdisciplinary approaches of commodity chain, commodity circuit, and commodity network analyses—common in sociology, anthropology, and geography—to cotton cloth in the Aztec economy to demonstrate how these techniques can enrich archaeological understandings of ancient economies. Commodity chain analysis draws attention to social and economic dependencies that link people and processes along a production sequence and across wide geographic areas. Commodity circuits and commodity networks highlight the bundling of goods and knowledge in nonlinear and multidirectional flows, the relationships that link participants through these flows, and the flexible meanings and values of goods for participants. By applying these approaches to the archaeological study of cotton cloth in the Aztec economy, we show how they provide a holistic framework for studying goods that bridges the microscale (household) and macroscale (world system).
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We presented the first version of this paper in the symposium Threads across Time and Space, organized by Rita Wright and Lisa Overholtzer at the 2017 meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. We benefitted from conversations with the other symposium participants, especially Geoff McCafferty, Julia Hendon, and Eva Andersson Strand. We are particularly grateful to Christina Halperin, Jeffrey Leiter, Sarah Bowen, Michaela DeSoucey, and six anonymous reviewers for their comments on the earlier versions of this paper. This paper would not have been possible without institutional support of the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (Mexico). We are indebted to the communities of Xaltocan and Tonanitla for their ongoing support of archaeological research. Overholtzer’s research at Xaltocan was supported by a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant (7797) from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, a National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (BCS-0968551), a Young Explorer Grant from the National Geographic Society, a Grant-in-Aid of Research from the Sigma Xi Foundation, a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, a Graduate Research Grant from the University Research Grants Committee at Northwestern University, and a Research Grant from the LeCron Foster and Friends of Anthropology at Northwestern University. Millhauser’s research in Tonanitla and at sites in southern Lake Xaltocan was supported by a National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant (BCS-1035319), a Wenner-Gren Dissertation Grant (8142), a Sigma Xi Grant-In-Aid of Research, a Graduate Research Grant from the Graduate School at Northwestern University, and an Information Technology Research Grant from the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University.
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Millhauser, J.K., Overholtzer, L. Commodity Chains in Archaeological Research: Cotton Cloth in the Aztec Economy. J Archaeol Res 28, 187–240 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10814-019-09134-9
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