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vi, 399 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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| Summary |
"Anthropology and Global History: From Tribes to the Modern World-System explains the origin and development of human societies and cultures from their earliest beginnings to the present through an anthropological lens, also drawing from the findings of diverse social sciences, including sociology, economics, political science, history, and ecological and religious studies. It uses a "World-System" theoretical framework derived from the work of anthropologist Eric Wolf, sociologist Immanuel Wallerstein, and diverse other social scientists. Given the central place of theory in any credible and productive reconstruction of world history, balance is achieved by integrating intriguing but also relevant detailed and dramatic illustrations of the more general flow of history."-- Publisher website. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-392) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Defining world-systems and civilizations -- History of tribal societies and cultures -- History of ancient tributary societies and cultures -- History of late pre-modern tributary societies and cultures -- History of the modern world-system and its "Occidental" civilization -- History of the modern world-system and its "Oriental" civilizations -- History of the modern world-system and its "Postcolonial" civilizations -- Historical routes to modernization within the modern world-system -- History of post-modernization and the future of the modern world-system and its civilizations -- Summary and conclusions. |
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Anthropology -- History.
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Ethnohistory.
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World history.
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World politics.
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Anthropology. (OCoLC)fst00810196
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Ethnohistory. (OCoLC)fst00916090
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World history. (OCoLC)fst01181345
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World politics. (OCoLC)fst01181381
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| ISBN |
9780759123892 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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0759123896 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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9780759123908 (ebook) |
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40022969221 |
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