# Renfrew 2001: Production and Consumption in a Sacred Economy: The Material Correlates of High Devotional Expression at Chaco Canyon

> Colin Renfrew, 2001. 1 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The classic statement of the pilgrimage-centre reading.

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# Production and Consumption in a Sacred Economy: The Material Correlates of High Devotional Expression at Chaco Canyon

Colin Renfrew, 2001. _American Antiquity_.

Models Chaco as an essentially egalitarian "location of high devotional expression" visited in periodic pilgrimages, and compares it with readings of Chaco as a trading centre and as an elite power base. American Antiquity 66(1), 14–25.

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Renfrew, C. (2001). Production and Consumption in a Sacred Economy: The Material Correlates of High Devotional Expression at Chaco Canyon. American Antiquity. https://doi.org/10.2307/2694314
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