World-Systems and Globalization in Archaeology: Assessing Models of Intersocietal Connections 50 Years since Wallerstein’s “The Modern World-System”
Part of: Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "World-Systems and Globalization in Archaeology: Assessing Models of Intersocietal Connections 50 Years since Wallerstein’s “The Modern World-System”" at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
2024 marks 50 years since the publication of Immanuel Wallerstein’s seminal volume on world-systems theory (WST). Wallerstein focused on the emergence of the capitalist world-system in the sixteenth century, but his model attracted the attention of archaeologists, historians, and others who applied the approach to precapitalist societies. Through reconfiguring of concepts such as core, periphery, semi-periphery, and incorporation, and the development of additional elements, most notably globalization, these researchers expanded the application of WST to periods reaching far back into antiquity. WST has evolved into a broader paradigm encompassing theories that share a focus on intersocietal interaction and the myriad ways that is expressed in the political, economic, social, and religious spheres. The term world-systems analysis (WSA) has been adopted to describe this more expansive perspective. In addition to the concepts developed by Wallerstein, Frank, Hall, Chase-Dunn, and others, notions concerning globalization, the nature and function of frontiers, network analysis, small worlds, and deep history have come to play major roles in WSA. This session examines the status of WSA and related approaches as frameworks that explain cultural conditions through time. Participants explore such linkages in East and Central Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Americas and also consider future directions.
Other Keywords
Historic •
network analysis •
Iron Age •
Social and Political Organization: States and Empires •
Migration •
Historical Archaeology •
Zooarchaeology •
Survey •
ancient DNA •
Bronze Age
Geographic Keywords
Republic of Turkey (Country) •
Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan (Country) •
State of Israel (Country) •
Lebanese Republic (Country) •
Syrian Arab Republic (Country) •
West Bank (Country) •
Republic of Cyprus (Country) •
Gaza Strip (Country) •
Republic of Bulgaria (Country) •
Romania (Country)
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- Documents (9)
- Advances in World-Systems Analysis in Mesoamerica (2024)
- Between Alexandria and Rome: World-Systems Analysis, Globalization, and Processes of Social Change in Hellenistic and Roman Cyprus (2024)
- Imperial Water: Fountains as an Expression of British Colonial Control in Cyprus in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (2024)
- Inner Asian Nomads and World-System Analysis (2024)
- Linking Multiple Scales in Time and Space: Small Worlds and World-Systems Analysis (2024)
- On the Periphery of the Iron Age World System: “Animal Style Art” in Southeastern Kazakhstan (2024)
- Prehistoric World Systems in the Age of the Genetic Revolution: The Eurasian Evidence (2024)
- Shaping Global History Narratives of the Southern Levant: Lessons Learned from Tall Hisban and the Madaba Plains Region in Jordan (2024)
- Water Access and World-Systems: Aquarian versus Terrestially Oriented Polities (2024)