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RETHINKING WORLD-SYSTEMS: DIASPORAS, COLONIES, AND By Gil J. Stein - Hardcover
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- Book Title
- Rethinking World-Systems: Diasporas, Colonies, and Interaction in
- ISBN-10
- 0816520097
- ISBN
- 9780816520091
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Arizona Press
ISBN-10
0816520097
ISBN-13
9780816520091
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1071729
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
206 Pages
Publication Name
Rethinking World-Systems : Diasporas, Colonies, and Interaction in Uruk Mesopotamia
Language
English
Publication Year
1999
Subject
Archaeology, Imperialism
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Political Science, Social Science
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
18.1 Oz
Item Length
1 in
Item Width
1 in
Additional Product Features
Edition Number
2
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
99-006283
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
"A thorough review of Wallerstein's world-system model and its many archaeological applications, Stein's own proposal of alternative models, and a test of the models using data from six excavation seasons at Hacinebi Tepe on the Euphrates River in Turkey. . . . Stein's book should engage the attention of any scholars with interests in interregional interaction in general or world-systems models in particular and represents the state of current research on early state in Mesopotamia. It also presents an ideal model of how to design an excavation and to publish its results."-- Journal of Anthropological Research "An outstanding achievement that adds to our understanding of the processes that brought forth the world's first urban literate complexity."-- American Historical Review, "A thorough review of Wallerstein's world-system model and its many archaeological applications, Stein's own proposal of alternative models, and a test of the models using data from six excavation seasons at Hacinebi Tepe on the Euphrates River in Turkey. . . . Stein's book should engage the attention of any scholars with interests in interregional interaction in general or world-systems models in particular and represents the state of current research on early state in Mesopotamia. It also presents an ideal model of how to design an excavation and to publish its results." — Journal of Anthropological Research "An outstanding achievement that adds to our understanding of the processes that brought forth the world's first urban literate complexity." — American Historical Review, "A thorough review of Wallerstein's world-system model and its many archaeological applications, Stein's own proposal of alternative models, and a test of the models using data from six excavation seasons at Hacinebi Tepe on the Euphrates River in Turkey. . . . Stein's book should engage the attention of any scholars with interests in interregional interaction in general or world-systems models in particular and represents the state of current research on early state in Mesopotamia. It also presents an ideal model of how to design an excavation and to publish its results." -- Journal of Anthropological Research "An outstanding achievement that adds to our understanding of the processes that brought forth the world's first urban literate complexity." -- American Historical Review
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
935/.01
Synopsis
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 between recognizing that no society can be understood in complete isolation from its neighbors and assuming the primacy of outside contact in a society's development., 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 ...
LC Classification Number
HD75.S753 1999
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