Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures vii
4. Tables xi
5. Chapter One Surplus: The Politics of Production and the Strategies of Everyday Life An Introduction 3
6. Chapter Two The Cost of Conquest Assessing the Impact of Inka Tribute Demands on the Wanka of Highland Peru 45
7. Chapter Three Surplus and Social Change The Production of Household and Field in Pre-Aztec Central Mexico 73
8. Chapter Four Surplus in the Indus Civilization Agricultural Choices, Social Relations, Political Effects 97
9. Chapter Five Surplus from Below Self-Organization of Production in Early Sweden 121
10. Chapter Six From Surplus Land to Surplus Production in the Viking Age Settlement of Iceland 153
11. Chapter Seven Surplus Capture in Contrasting Modes of Religiosity Perspectives from Sixteenth-Century Mesoamerica 175
12. Chapter Eight Surplus Houses Palace Politics in the Bight of Benin West Africa, AD 1650–1727 203
13. Chapter Nine Surplus Labor, Ceremonial Feasting, and Social Inequality at Cahokia A Study in Social Process 221
14. Chapter Ten The Sociality of Surplus among Late Archaic Hunter-Gatherers of Coastal Georgia 245
15. Chapter Eleven The Transactional Dynamics of Surplus in Landscapes of Enslavement Scalar Perspectives from Interstitial West Africa 267
16. Chapter Twelve Conclusions Surplus and the Political Economy in Prehistory 307
17. Contributors 327
18. Index 329