Anthropology and global history : from tribes to the modern world-system / Robert M. Carmack.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carmack, Robert M., 1934-2023, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropology--History.

Anthropology.

History.

Ethnohistory.

World history.

World politics.

Physical Description:

vi, 399 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : AltaMira Press, [2013]

Summary:

"Anthropology and Global History: From Tribes to the Modern World-System explains the origin and development of human societies and cultures from their earliest beginnings to the present through an anthropological lens, also drawing from the findings of diverse social sciences, including sociology, economics, political science, history, and ecological and religious studies. It uses a "World-System" theoretical framework derived from the work of anthropologist Eric Wolf, sociologist Immanuel Wallerstein, and diverse other social scientists. Given the central place of theory in any credible and productive reconstruction of world history, balance is achieved by integrating intriguing but also relevant detailed and dramatic illustrations of the more general flow of history." -- Publisher website.

Contents:

Introduction

Defining world-systems and civilizations

History of tribal societies and cultures

History of ancient tributary societies and cultures

History of late pre-modern tributary societies and cultures

History of the modern world-system and its "Occidental" civilization

History of the modern world-system and its "Oriental" civilizations

History of the modern world-system and its "Postcolonial" civilizations

Historical routes to modernization within the modern world-system

History of post-modernization and the future of the modern world-system and its civilizations

Summary and conclusions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780759123892

0759123896

OCLC:

851417459