Historical transformations : the anthropology of global systems
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Historical transformations : the anthropology of global systems
AltaMira Press, a division of Rowman & Littlefield, c2008
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Historical Transformations represents the work of two distinguished anthropologists over three decades on the history and importance of global thinking in the social sciences. The authors consider numerous examples for which local phenomena can only be understood within the contexts of global systems. Their multidisciplinary work touches on many aspects of social and individual life as well as long-term historical processes.
Table of Contents
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
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