Globalizations and the Ancient WorldCambridge University Press, 8 nov. 2010 In this book, Justin Jennings argues that globalization is not just a phenomenon limited to modern times. Instead he contends that the globalization of today is just the latest in a series of globalizing movements in human history. Using the Uruk, Mississippian, and Wari civilizations as case studies, Jennings examines how the growth of the world's first great cities radically transformed their respective areas. The cities required unprecedented exchange networks, creating long-distance flows of ideas, people, and goods. These flows created cascades of interregional interaction that eroded local behavioral norms and social structures. New, hybrid cultures emerged within these globalized regions. Although these networks did not span the whole globe, people in these areas developed globalized cultures as they interacted with one another. Jennings explores how understanding globalization as a recurring event can help in the understanding of both the past and the present. |
Table des matières
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2 How to Pluralize Globalization | 19 |
3 Cities and the Spread of the First Global Cultures | 35 |
4 UrukWarka | 57 |
5 Cahokia | 77 |
6 Huari | 99 |
7 But Were They Really Global Cultures? | 121 |
8 Learning from Past Globalizations | 143 |
References Cited | 155 |
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agricultural Alabama Press Algaze alluvium American Antiquity American Bottom ancient globalizations Ancient World Andean Anthropology Archaeology artifacts Ayacucho Cahokia centers central ceramic Cerro Baúl Chase-Dunn Chiefdoms city’s civilizations colonial outposts Complex connections countryside created Current Anthropology Cuzco earlier Early Urban edited elites emerged Etowah example exchange Feinman flows Fort Ancient fourth millennium groups hallmarks Hamoukar Huari ideas increasing interaction networks interregional interaction Iraq Isbell kilometers Late Uruk Period living long-distance Malden McEwan Mesoamerica Mesopotamia Middle Horizon Middle Uruk Period Mississippian modern globalization mound northern obsidian occurred past Pauketat 2004b period of globalization Peru Pikillacta Pluralize Globalization pots Prehistory REFERENCES CITED region relationships ritual Rothman scholars Settlement social changes Society Southeastern Ceremonial Complex southern alluvium spread Stein style surge Tell Brak Tepe Gawra Timothy tion Tiwanaku trade Ubaid Ubaid Period University of Alabama Uruk expansion Uruk Period Uruk-Warka Valley village Wall world systems York