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Akin, Marjorie Helen Kleiger,

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Asian coins in the North American West: A behavioral systems approach to numismatic analysis /

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Asian coins in the North American West: A behavioral systems approach to numismatic analysis // Marjorie Helen Kleiger Akin.
作者:	Akin, Marjorie Helen Kleiger,
面頁冊數:	1 electronic resource (364 pages)
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 54-11, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International54-11A.
標題:	Archaeology. -
電子資源:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9314115
ISBN:	9798207664187

Asian coins in the North American West: A behavioral systems approach to numismatic analysis /
Akin, Marjorie Helen Kleiger,

Asian coins in the North American West: A behavioral systems approach to numismatic analysis /Marjorie Helen Kleiger Akin. - 1 electronic resource (364 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 54-11, Section: A.

The subjects of this study are the Asian coins, primarily the Chinese wen, the Vietnamese dong, and the Japanese mon, recovered from historic and proto-historic archaeological sites throughout Western North America. Once imported to the New World these pieces of brass, bronze, and zinc were no longer used as money, but instead were each incorporated into one or more different realms of activity referred to here as behavioral systems. As well as being found in archaeological sites dating from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, the coins are found in ethnographic collections of both Chinese and Native American Indian artifacts, and can still be found in use today in California. This is the first comprehensive study of the uses of these coins in Western North America. A new method of analysis was required to determine how the functions of the coins changed as they changed cultural context. Models were constructed of the ways these coins would have been imported, used, and ultimately deposited into the archaeological record. The potential value of the coins in the analysis of the sites where they were recovered is greatly increased by using these behavioral systems models. The characteristics of seven behavioral systems are outlined: (1) the currency system; (2) the trans-Pacific trading system; (3) the Asian folk religion system; (4) the gaming system; (5) the medical practices system; (6) the decorating system; and, (7) the collecting system. Each system has several distinctive attributes that become apparent when an assemblage of coins from the system is examined. The attributes can include particular ratios of reign names or provincial mints represented in a typical assemblage, or may consist of particular contextual associations of the coins with other classes of artifacts. Approximate time of importation can sometimes be determined by studying the attributes of an assemblage, and this information can be useful for dating purposes. The application of this method of analysis to the coins provides new information about the peoples who used the coins, as well as suggesting new ways to improve our reconstructions of the past.

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ISBN: 9798207664187Subjects--Topical Terms:

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