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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考古研究中的商品链：阿兹台克经济中的棉布

本文将商品链，商品电路和商品网络分析的跨学科方法（在社会学，人类学和地理学中很常见）应用于阿兹台克经济中的棉布，以证明这些技术如何丰富考古学对古代经济的理解。商品链分析提请人们注意社会和经济上的依存关系，这些依存关系将人和过程沿生产顺序并跨越广泛的地理区域联系起来。商品电路和商品网络突出了商品和知识在非线性和多向流中的捆绑，通过这些流将参与者连接起来的关系，以及商品对参与者的灵活含义和价值。通过将这些方法应用于阿兹台克经济中棉布的考古研究，