Centre and Periphery (eBook, ePUB)

Comparative Studies in Archaeology
Redaktion: Champion, Tim

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"Centre and Periphery" explores the varying dynamic relationships that have developed between the center--seen not as a simple physical location, but as a base of power and influence--and the periphery of societies. It initiates a new worldwide debate within archaeology which illuminates our understanding of long-term social transformations in pre-capitalist societies.
The contributors examine the mechanisms that reinforced inequalities in social relations, distribution of power, access to knowledge, control over symbolism and ritual, religious cults and even literacy. The implications for the archaeology of hierarchical societies are far-reaching. The book shows, through wide-ranging case studies, that the variety of material evidence discovered by archaeologists may reveal that in spite of the fact that peoples with a distinctive material culture were originally treated as homogenous, the rituals and political activities practiced by these peoples are, in many cases, unrepresentative of many groups within the community. The center of cultural practice differs fundamentally from the periphery.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. August 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134806782
• Artikelnr.: 42718566

Autorenporträt

Tim Champion

Inhaltsangabe

List of contributors page
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
1 Metropole and margin: the dependency theory and the political economy of the Solomon Islands
1880-1980
2 The greater Southwest as a periphery of Mesoamerica
3 Explaining the Iroquois: tribalization on a prehistoric periphery
4 Divergent trajectories in central Italy
1200-500 BC
5 Greeks and natives in south-east Italy: approaches to the archaeological evidence
6 Greeks
Etruscans
and thirsty barbarians: Early Iron Age interaction in the Rhône Basin of France
7 The impact of the Roman amphora trade on pre-Roman Britain
8 Interactions between the nomadic cultures of central Asia and China in the Middle Ages
9 Diffusion and cultural evolution in Iron Age Serbia
10 Acculturation and ethnicity in Roman Moesia Superior
11 Native American acculturation in the Spanish colonial empire: the Franciscan missions of Alta California
12 The town
the power
and the land: Denmark and Europe during the first millennium AD
13 Great Moravia between the Franconians
Byzantium and Rome
Index