Robert M. Carmack

Anthropology and Global History

From Tribes to the Modern World-System

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Produktbeschreibung

Anthropology and Global History explains the origin and development of human societies and cultures from their earliest beginnings to the present-utilizing an anthropological lens but also drawing from sociology, economics, political science, history, and ecological and religious studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Altamira Press
• Seitenzahl: 406
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 807g
• ISBN-13: 9780759123892
• ISBN-10: 0759123896
• Artikelnr.: 38491424

Autorenporträt

By Robert M. Carmack

Inhaltsangabe

Contents INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1 DEFINING WORLD-SYSTEMS AND CIVILIZATIONS
Vignette: A World-System and Civilization Framework for Understanding the
9/11 Twin Towers Attack Conceptualizing World-Systems Case Study 1:
Construction of a Hydroelectric dam in a Peripheral Costa Rican Community
Conceptualizing Civilizations Case Study 2: Wilkinson's Argument that
"Civilizations are World Systems" CHAPTER 2 HISTORY OF TRIBAL SOCIETIES AND
CULTURES Vignette: First Contacts with the Papuan Tribal Peoples of New
Guinea Historical Overview of Tribal Societies and Cultures Pre-Historic
Transformation from Bands to Tribes Case Study 3: Yanomami Tribal Peoples
Historical Emergence of Tribal Chiefdoms Case Study 4: Powhatan Chiefdom
Contemporary "Tribal Nations" (Australian Aborigines, Waziristan Pashtun
Tribes, Garifuna) CHAPTER 3 HISTORY OF ANCIENT TRIBUTARY SOCIETIES AND
CULTURES Vignette: Understanding an Ancient Cuneiform Tablet from
Mesopotamia Historical Overview of the Ancient Eurasian Tributary Societies
and Cultures Ancient Fertile Crescent (Mesopotamia, Egypt and Northeast
Africa, Persia) Case Study 5: Emergence of Ancient Israel and Judaism
Ancient Asia (China, India) Ancient Europe (Greece, Rome) Case Study 6:
Samir Amin's Perspective on the Ancient Network of Eurasian World-Systems
and Classic Civilizations CHAPTER 4 HISTORY OF LATE PRE-MODERN TRIBUTARY
SOCIETIES AND CULTURES Vignette: Mohammed the Messenger, Founder of an
Islamic State and Religion Historical Overview of Late Pre-Modern Eurasian
Societies and Cultures Imperial Core Powers of the Late Pre-Modern Eurasian
World-System (Islamic, Chinese, and Byzantine empires) Case Study 7:
Mediating Role of India within the Thirteenth-Century Eurasian Trade
Network Feudal Peripheries of the Late Pre-Modern Eurasian World-System
(Western Europe, Japan) Case Study 8: Russia, from Feudalism to Empire Late
Pre-Modern "Outer Peripheral" and "Frontier" States (Sub-Sahara African
States,Late Pre-Modern New World "Frontier" States) Case Study 9:
Quetzalcoatl, a Mesoamerican Frontier Culture Hero CHAPTER 5 HISTORY OF THE
MODERN WORLD-SYSTEM AND ITS "OCCIDENTAL" CIVILIZATION Vignette: Queen
Elizabeth at the Dawn of the Modern Era Defining "Occidentalism" Modern
World-System and Its Western Core Powers Case Study 10: U.S. rise to
World-System Hegemony Western Civilization and Its Impact on the Modern
World-System Modern World-System Periphery and Resistance to the Western
Core Powers Case Study 11: Occidentalism and Resistance through Heroic
Suicide CHAPTER 6 HISTORY OF THE MODERN WORLD-SYSTEM AND ITS "ORIENTAL"
CIVILIZATIONS Vignette: Empress Dowager Cixi and Xuan Tong (Pu Yi), the
Last Chinese Emperor Defining "Orientalism" Asia in the Context of the
Modern World-System Periphery (China, Japan) Case Study 12: The Changing
Role of Caste in Modern India Middle East in the Context of the Modern
World-System Periphery Case Study 13: Iraq and the Saddam Hussein Wars
CHAPTER 7 HISTORY OF THE MODERN WORLD-SYSTEM AND ITS "POST-COLONIAL"
CIVILIZATIONS Vignette: Initial Encounter between Spanish Colonizers and
the Inka Defining "Post-Colonialism" Latin America in the Context of the
Modern World-System Periphery Case Study 14: The Virgin of Guadalupe Cult,
a Post-colonial Mexican Legacy Sub-Sahara Africa in the Context of the
Modern World-System Periphery Case Study 15: Post-Colonial Symbolism and
Indigenous Leaders in Modern South Africa CHAPTER 8 HISTORICAL ROUTES TO
MODERNIZATION WITHIN THE MODERN WORLD-SYSTEM: DEVELOPMENT AND REVOLUTION
Vignette: Robespierre and the French Revolution Modernization through
Development Case Study 16: Development in Turkey Modernization through
Revolution Case Study 17: Revolution in Nicaragua Failed Development,
Failed Revolution Case Study 18: Rwanda's Failed Development and Failed
Revolution CHAPTER 9 HISTORY OF POST-MODERNIZATION AND THE FUTURE OF THE
MODERN WORLD-SYSTEM AND ITS CIVILIZATIONS Vignette: McWorld vs. Jihad
Defining the "Post-Modernization Case Study 19: U.S. Modernism Versus
European Post-Modernism Defining the "Postmodern" Perspective Case Study
20: Michele Foucault, a Pioneer Postmodernist Competing Perspectives on the
Future of the Modern World (Postmodern, Social History, Anthropological,
World-System, and Civilizations) Summary and Conclusions Glossary
Bibliography Index About the Author