World-Systems Theory in Practice

Leadership, Production, and Exchange

Häftad, Engelska, 1998

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Beskrivning

In the quarter century since Wallerstein first developed world systems theory (WST), scholars in a variety of disciplines have adopted the approach to explain intersocietal interaction on a grand scale. These essays bring to light archaeological data and analysis to show that many historic and prehistoric states lacked the mechanisms to dominate the distant (and in some cases, nearby) societies with which they interacted. Core/periphery exploitation needs to be demonstrated, not simply assumed, as the interdisciplinary dialogue which occurs in this volume demonstrates.World-Systems Theory in Practice will appeal to individuals with an interest in the application of WST in both the Old World and the New World. The papers in this volume reflect the vitality of the debate concerning the use of such generalizing theories and will be of interest to archeologists, anthropologists, historians, sociologists, and those involved in the study of civilizations.

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Utgivningsdatum:1998-12-23
Mått:153 x 216 x 25 mm
Vikt:526 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:352
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9780847691043

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P. Nick Kardulias is professor of anthropology at Wooster College.

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...very useful teaching materials... The more general papers by Thomas Hall and Andre Gunder Frank are also potentially useful as they provide stern critiques of the theory and how it is evolving into what seems like a paradigm.....

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1 PrefaceChapter 2 World-Systems and Evolution: An AppraisalChapter 3 Goodness of Fit: On the Relationship Between Ethnographic Data and World-Systems TheoryChapter 4 Legitimation Crises in Prehistoric WorldsChapter 5 The Changing Structure of Macroregional Mesoamerica: The Classic-Postclassic Transition in the Valley of OaxacaChapter 6 Negotiated Peripherality in Iron Age Greece: Accepting and Resisting the EastChapter 7 Production Within and Beyond Imperial Boundaries: Goods, Exchanges/ and Power in Roman EuropeChapter 8 The Emerging World System and Colonial Yucatan: The Archeology of Core-Periphery Integration, 1780-1847Chapter 9 Thoughts on the Periphery: Ideological Consequences of Core/Periphery RelationsChapter 10 Rethinking World Systems: Power, Distance, and Diasporas in the Dynamics of Interregional InteractionChapter 11 Multiple Levels in the Aegean Bronze Age World-SystemChapter 12 World Systems Theory, Core Periphery Interactions and Elite Economic Exchange in Mississippian SocietiesChapter 13 The Inca Empire: Detailing the Complexities of Core/Periphery InteractionsChapter 14 The Evolutionary Pulse of the World System: Hinterland Incursions and Migrations, 4000 B.C. to A.D. 1500Chapter 15 Abuses and Uses of World Systems Theory in ArcheologyChapter 16 Does World-Systems Theory Work?: An Ethnographer's PerspectiveChapter 17 ConclusionChapter 18 Index