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Stephanie Anne Salwen

MA 2010, Archaeology, University of California, LA.
BA 2007, Anthropology, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.


Fax: 310-206-4723
E-mail: ssalwen@ucla.edu

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Research Interests

North American archaeology, California, Great Lakes Region, hunter-gatherers and foundations of complex society, economic anthropology, exchange systems, waterways and landscape archaeology.

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My dissertation explores how waterways were used to promote social and economic strategies for integration or differentiation and will present archaeological indicators for these uses of waterways. My research on the 17th century Great Lakes region focuses on how surface water provided options in building social connections on the landscape among Native communities and between these communities and the French fishers, trappers, and missionaries with whom the indigenous communities primarily interacted. My MA research addressed the exchange of highly-valued, natural asphaltum resources in the Santa Barbara Channel region in relation to contemporaneous (1150-1300 AD) local sociopolitical shifts toward complex society.

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Jeanne Arnold
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The Construction of Value

Scholars from Aristotle to Marx and beyond have been fascinated by the question of what constitutes value. The Construction of Value in the Ancient World makes a significant contribution to this ongoing inquiry, bringing together in one comprehensive volume the perspectives of leading anthropologists, archaeologists, historians, linguists, philologists, and sociologists on how value was created, defined, and expressed in a number of ancient societies around the world. Based on the basic premise that value is a social construct defined by the cultural context in which it is situated, the volume explores four overarching but closely interrelated themes: place value, body value, object value, and number value. The questions raised and addressed are of central importance to archaeologists studying ancient civilizations: How can we understand the value that might have been accorded to materials, objects, people, places, and patterns of action by those who produced or used the things that compose the human material record? Taken as a whole, the contributions to this volume demonstrate how the concept of value lies at the intersection of individual and collective tastes, desires, sentiments, and attitudes that inform the ways people select, or give priority to, one thing over another.

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