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Rethinking World-Systems

Name: Rethinking World-Systems
Brand: University of Arizona Press
SKU: 9780816520091
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Diasporas, Colonies, and Interaction in Uruk Mesopotamia

Autor: Gil J. Stein

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Vydavateľ: University of Arizona Press

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The use of world-systems theory to explain the spread of social complexity has become accepted pract...

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Autor

Gil J. Stein

Jazyk

Angličtina

Väzba

Kniha - Pevná

Vydalo

1999

Stránok

206

EAN

9780816520091

ISBN

9780816520091

Enbook ID

06372184

Vydavateľ

University of Arizona Press

Hmotnosť

500

Rozmery

235 x 160 x 24

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The use of world-systems theory to explain the spread of social complexity has become accepted practice by both historians and archaeologists. Gil Stein now offers the first rigorous test of world systems as a model in archaeology, arguing that the application of world-systems theory to noncapitalist, pre-fifteenth-century societies distorts our understanding of developmental change by overemphasizing the role of external over internal dynamics.In this new study, Stein proposes two complementary theoretical frameworks for the study of interregional interaction: a "distance-parity" model, which views world-systems as simply one factor in a broader range of intersocietal relations, and a "trade-diaspora" model, which explains variation in exchange systems from the perspective of participant groups. He tests his models against the archaeological record of Mesopotamian expansion into the Anatolian highlands during the fourth millennium B.C.Whereas some scholars have considered this "Uruk expansion" to be one of the earliest documented world-systems, Stein uses data from the site of Hacinebi in southeastern Turkey to support his alternate perspective. Comparing economic data from pre- and postcontact phases, Stein shows that the Mesopotamians did not dominate the people of this distant periphery.Such evidence, argues Stein, shows that we must look more closely at the local cultures of peripheries to develop realistic cross-cultural models of variation in colonialism, exchange, and secondary state formation in ancient societies. By demonstrating that a multitude of factors affect the nature and consequences of intersocietal contacts, his book advocates a much-needed balance betweenrecognizing that no society can be understood in complete isolation from its neighbors and assuming the primacy of outside contact in a society's development.

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