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Rethinking World-Systems : Diasporas, Colonies, and Interaction in Uruk Mesopotamia /

"In this new study, Stein proposes two complementary theoretical frameworks for the study of interregional interaction: a "distance-parity" model, which views world-systems as simply one factor in a broader range of intersocietal relations, and a "trade-diaspora" model, whic...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stein, Gil, 1956-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 1999.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Interregional Interaction and the Development of Prehistoric Complex Societies
  • 2. The World-System Model and Its Critics
  • 3. World-Systems in Archaeology
  • 4. Alternative Frameworks: The Trade-Diaspora and Distance-Parity Models of Interaction
  • 5. Testing the Models: Forms of Interaction and Their Archaeological Correlates
  • 6. A Case Study: Uruk Mesopotamia and Its Neighbors in the Fourth Millennium B.C.
  • 7. Mesopotamian-Anatolian Interaction at Hacmebi, Turkey
  • 8. Power, Distance, and Variation in the Interaction Networks of Ancient Complex Societies.