Archaic state interaction : the eastern Mediterranean in the Bronze Age / edited by William A. Parkinson and Michael L. Galaty.

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TextSeries: School for Advanced Research advanced seminar seriesPublication details: Santa Fe, N.M. : School for Advanced Research Press, 2009.Description: xii, 318 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cmISBN:

9781934691205 (alk. paper)

Subject(s): DDC classification:

909.09822

Contents:

Introduction: Interaction and ancient societies / William A. Parkinson and Michael L. Galaty -- Interaction amidst diversity : an introduction to the eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age / Michael L. Galaty ... [et al.] -- World-systems applications for understanding the Bronze Age in the eastern Mediterranean / P. Nick Kardulias -- The Aegean and the wider world : some thoughts on a world-systems perspective / Susan Sherratt -- Sorting out Crete's prepalatial off-island interactions / John F. Cherry -- The voyages of Europa : ritual and trade in the eastern Mediterranean / David Wengrow -- Bronze Age interactions between the Aegean and the eastern Mediterranean revisited : mainstream, periphery, or margin? / Eric H. Cline -- The world beyond the northern margin : the Bronze Age Aegean and the east Adriatic coast / Helena Tomas -- Think locally, act globally : Mycenaean elites and the late Bronze Age world system / Robert Schon.

Summary: "In current archaeological research the failure to find common ground between world-systems theory believers and their counterparts has resulted in a stagnation of theoretical development in regards to modeling how early state societies interacted with their neighbors. This book is an attempt to redress this issues. By shifting the theoretical focus away from questions of state evolution to state interaction, the authors develop anthropological models for understanding how ancient states interacted with one another and with societies of different scales of economic and political organization. One of their goals has been to identify a theoretical middle ground that is neither dogmatic nor dismissive. The result is an innovative approach to modeling social interaction that will be helpful in exploring the relationship between social processes that occur at different geographic scales over different temporal durations. The scholars who participated in the SAR advanced seminar that resulted in this book used a particular geographic and temporal context as a case study for developing anthropological models of interaction that are cross-cultural in scope but still deal well with the idiosyncracies of specific culture histories." -- Publisher's description.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds	Course reserves
Reserve - Overnight loan	CYA Library Reserve	909.09822 ARC (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		00000009429		Papadopoulos, Angelos

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Papers from seminar held Mar. 11-15, 2007 in Santa Fe, N.M.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-307) and index.

"In current archaeological research the failure to find common ground between world-systems theory believers and their counterparts has resulted in a stagnation of theoretical development in regards to modeling how early state societies interacted with their neighbors. This book is an attempt to redress this issues. By shifting the theoretical focus away from questions of state evolution to state interaction, the authors develop anthropological models for understanding how ancient states interacted with one another and with societies of different scales of economic and political organization. One of their goals has been to identify a theoretical middle ground that is neither dogmatic nor dismissive. The result is an innovative approach to modeling social interaction that will be helpful in exploring the relationship between social processes that occur at different geographic scales over different temporal durations. The scholars who participated in the SAR advanced seminar that resulted in this book used a particular geographic and temporal context as a case study for developing anthropological models of interaction that are cross-cultural in scope but still deal well with the idiosyncracies of specific culture histories." -- Publisher's description.