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: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 589g
• ISBN-13: 9781442249011
• ISBN-10: 1442249013
• Artikelnr.: 41885724

Autorenporträt

Robert M. Carmack is professor emeritus of Anthropology, University at Albany. He has authored or edited thirty books in his long career and specializes in anthropology and archaeology of the indigenous of Central America, particularly the Mayas.

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