The volume merges traditional archaeological concerns about trade and exchange with more contemporary issues of agency, identity and social meaning.

Chapter 1 Rethinking Trade as a Social Activity: An Introduction, Anna S. Agbe-Davies, Alexander A. Bauer; Chapter 2 Trade and Interaction in Archaeology, Alexander A. Bauer, Anna S. Agbe-Davies; Chapter 3 Landscapes of Circulation in Northwest Argentina: The Workings of Obsidian and Ceramics during the First Millennium ad, Marisa Lazzari; Chapter 4 Social Aspects of the Tobacco Pipe Trade in Early Colonial Virginia, Anna S. Agbe-Davies; Chapter 5 Arenas of Action: Trade as Power, Trade as Identity, Kenneth G. Kelly; Chapter 6 Greeks and Phoenicians: Perceptions of Trade and Traders in the Early First Millennium bc, Susan Sherratt; Chapter 7 Those Who Were Traded: African-Bahamian Archaeology and the Slave Trade, Laurie A. Wilkie, Paul Farnsworth; Chapter 8 Broads, Studs, and Broken Down Daddies: The Materiality of "Playing" in the Modern Penitentiary, Eleanor Conlin Casella; Chapter 9 Buying a Table in Erfelek: Socialities of Contact and Community in the Black Sea Region, Owen P. Doonan, Alexander A. Bauer; Chapter 10 Objects, Social Relations, and Cultural Motion, Greg Urban;