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Archaic State Interaction: The Eastern Mediterranean in the Bronze Age
William A. Parkinson (Ed.)
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Paperback. By using a specific case study, the contributors to this book aim to help establish a common theoretical ground for investigating how humans and the societies they built interacted over time. Editor(s): Parkinson, William A.; Galaty, Michael L. Series: School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1QRM; HDD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. .
In current archaeological research the failure to find common ground between world-systems theory believers and their counterparts has resulted in a stagnation of theoretical development in regards to modeling how early state societies interacted with their neighbors. This book is an attempt to redress these issues. By shifting the theoretical focus away from questions of state evolution to state interaction, the authors develop anthropological models for understanding how ancient states interacted with one another and with societies of different scales of economic and political organization. One of their goals has been to identify a theoretical middle ground that is neither ... Read more
In current archaeological research the failure to find common ground between world-systems theory believers and their counterparts has resulted in a stagnation of theoretical development in regards to modeling how early state societies interacted with their neighbors. This book is an attempt to redress these issues. By shifting the theoretical focus away from questions of state evolution to state interaction, the authors develop anthropological models for understanding how ancient states interacted with one another and with societies of different scales of economic and political organization. One of their goals has been to identify a theoretical middle ground that is neither ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
SAR Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Series
School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Santa Fe, United States
ISBN
9781934691205
SKU
V9781934691205
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