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by David — last modified September 05, 2008 02:46 PM

The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology is an interdisciplinary research unit, bringing together more than 35 UCLA faculty members from 11 departments, and more than 40 Research Associates. Other scholars visit as part of the Cotsen Seminars and the Cotsen Visiting Scholar Program.

The Cotsen Institute is a stimulating intellectual environment with three lecture series and two inter-departmental graduate programs: Graduate Program in Archaeology and UCLA/Getty Program in Archaeological and Ethnographic Conservation.

Archaeological research through the Cotsen Institute spans the globe and is supported through research grants for scholars and students. The Cotsen Institute houses 15 research laboratories, a computer laboratory, a reading room, a seminar room, and teaching facilities.

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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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