Craft and the Kingly Ideal - Art, Trade, and Power

List of contents

• Preface
• 1. Introduction to the Problem
  • Prelude
  • The Activities of Gilgamesh
  • Professional Perspectives
• Part I: Skilled Crafting
  • 2. What Skilled Crafting Means
    • Qualities of Skilled Crafting
    • Crafting as Transformation
    • Crafting and Creation
  • 3. Skilled Artisans in Time and Space
    • Artisans and the Ancestors
    • Artisans and Geographical Distance
    • Travelers, Traders, and Artisans
    • Traveling as Skilled Craft
    • The Authenticity of Distance
  • 4. Qualities of Skilled Artisans
    • Flawed Creators or the Epitome of Humanness
    • Aesthetics
  • 5. Skilled Crafting and Political Authority
    • Crafting and Politics in Egalitarian Societies
    • Power over Things as Power over People
    • The Kingly Craft of Building
  • Part II: Acquisition
    • 6. Exchange, Trade, and Acquisition
      • Acquisition Defined
      • Acquisition Explored
    • 7. Acquisition in Time and Space
      • Original Travelers and Original Trade
      • Craft and the Conduct of Acquisition
    • 8. Qualities of Acquisition
      • The Flawed and the Ideal
      • The Accumulation of Wealth
      • Wealth and the Ancestors
    • 9. Naturally Endowed Goods and Skillfully Crafted Goods
      • The Tangible and the Material
      • Hunting
      • The Skillfully Crafted vs. the Naturally Endowed
    • 10. Acquisition and Political Authority
      • Elites and the Outside
      • Elites as Acquirers
      • Acquisition and Ancestral Conditions
    • Part III: Centers and Origins
      • 11. Superordinate Centers
        • Outside Centers and Ancestral Powers
        • Superordinate Centers
      • 12. Acquisitional Polities
        • Characteristics of Centers-Out-There
        • The Acquisition of “Civilization”
      • 13. Conclusions
      • Notes
      • References
      • Index
      
      
      

Product details

• Authors: Mary W. Helms
• Publisher: University Of Texas Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.1993
• EAN: 9780292730786
• ISBN: 978-0-292-73078-6
• No. of pages: 302
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 493 g
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics