Kajsa Ekholm Friedman, Jonathan Friedman

Historical Transformations

The Anthropology of Global Systems

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Historical Transformations takes a comprehensive look at global systemic anthropology, presenting the authors' three decades of research in the social sciences.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: AltaMira Press
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 652g
• ISBN-13: 9780759111103
• ISBN-10: 0759111103
• Artikelnr.: 23042662

Autorenporträt

Kajsa Ekholm Friedman is professor in the Department of Social Anthropology at Lund University, Sweden. Jonathan Friedman is directeur d'études at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, in Paris, and professor of social anthropology at Lund University.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Social Reproduction, Social Transformation, and Global Process
Chapter 1 Marxist Theory and Systems of Total Reproduction Chapter 2 Crises
in Theory and Transformations of the World Economy Part II: Global Process
and Long Term Change Chapter 3 The Study of Risks in Social Systems: An
Anthropological Perspective Chapter 4 Notes towards an Epigenetic Model of
the Evolution of "Civilization" Chapter 5 Structural Perspectives on the
Bronze Age: Economic, Political and Social Integration Chapter 6 "Capital"
Imperialism and Exploitation in Ancient World Systems Chapter 7
Transnationalization, Socio-political Disorder, and Ethnification as
Expressions of Declining Global Hegemony Part III: Structure and History:
Transformational Models Chapter 8 External Exchange and the Transformation
of Central African Social Systems Chapter 9 "Sad Stories of the Death of
Kings:" The Involution of Divine Kingship Chapter 10 Notes on Structure and
History in Oceania Chapter 11 Morphogenesis and Global Process in Polynesia