Anthropology and Global History
From Tribes to the Modern World-System- Authors:
- Publisher:
- 2013
Summary
Anthropology and Global History explains the origin and development of human societies and cultures from their earliest beginnings to the present—utilizing an anthropological lens but also drawing from sociology, economics, political science, history, and ecological and religious studies.
Carmack reconceptualizes world history from a global perspective by employing the expansive concepts of “world-systems” and “civilizations,” and by paying deeper attention to the role of tribal and native peoples within this history. Rather than concentrating on the minute details of specific great events in global history, he shifts our focus to the broad social and cultural contexts in which they occurred. Carmack traces the emergence of ancient kingdoms and the characteristics of pre-modern empires as well as the processes by which the modern world has become integrated and transformed. The book addresses Western civilization as well as comparative processes which have unfolded in Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, and sub-Saharan Africa. Vignettes opening each chapter and case studies integrated throughout the text illustrate the numerous and often extremely complex historical processes which have operated through time and across local, regional, and global settings.
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Bibliographic data
- Copyright year
- 2013
- ISBN-Print
- 978-0-7591-2389-2
- ISBN-Online
- 978-0-7591-2390-8
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 400
- Product type
- Book Titles
Table of contents
- Contents No access
- Introduction No access Pages 1 - 6
- Ch01. Defining World-Systems and Civilizations No access Pages 7 - 32
- Ch02. History of Tribal Societies and Cultures No access Pages 33 - 68
- Ch03. History of Ancient Tributary Societies and Cultures No access Pages 69 - 124
- Ch04. History of Late Pre-modern Tributary Societies and Cultures No access Pages 125 - 180
- Ch05. History of the Modern World-System and Its “Occidental” Civilization No access Pages 181 - 216
- Ch06. History of the Modern World-System and Its “Oriental” Civilizations No access Pages 217 - 258
- Ch07. History of the Modern World-System and Its “Postcolonial” Civilizations No access Pages 259 - 296
- Ch08. Historical Routes to Modernization within the Modern World-System No access Pages 297 - 328
- Ch09. History of Post-modernization and the Future of the Modern World-System and Its Civilizations No access Pages 329 - 358
- Summary and Conclusions No access Pages 359 - 368
- Glossary No access Pages 369 - 372
- Bibliography No access Pages 373 - 392
- Index No access Pages 393 - 398
- About the Author No access Pages 399 - 400





