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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Advances in World-Systems Analysis in Mesoamerica (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "World-Systems and Globalization in Archaeology: Assessing Models of Intersocietal Connections 50 Years since Wallerstein’s “The Modern World-System”" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. With the refinement of world-systems analysis into the nested network model (i.e., bulk goods, political/military, prestige goods, and information), Chase-Dunn and Hall (1997) have proposed a research strategy that is applicable to ancient...
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Between Alexandria and Rome: World-Systems Analysis, Globalization, and Processes of Social Change in Hellenistic and Roman Cyprus (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "World-Systems and Globalization in Archaeology: Assessing Models of Intersocietal Connections 50 Years since Wallerstein’s “The Modern World-System”" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 2007, a children’s book about Cypriot history entitled “The Island that Everyone Wanted” was published. Despite being aimed at a juvenile audience, this title aptly encapsulates the history of Cyprus, i.e., as an island coveted by...
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Imperial Water: Fountains as an Expression of British Colonial Control in Cyprus in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "World-Systems and Globalization in Archaeology: Assessing Models of Intersocietal Connections 50 Years since Wallerstein’s “The Modern World-System”" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As part of the ethnoarchaeological component of the Athienou Archaeological Project (AAP), a team has conducted a survey of the public drinking fountains built in the town of Athienou in central Cyprus during the British colonial period....
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Inner Asian Nomads and World-System Analysis (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "World-Systems and Globalization in Archaeology: Assessing Models of Intersocietal Connections 50 Years since Wallerstein’s “The Modern World-System”" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. World-systems analysis was created to describe capitalism. However, in 1989, Abu-Lughod expanded the temporal boundaries. She described the world-system of the thirteenth century, and now it has become customary to talk about Mongolian...
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Linking Multiple Scales in Time and Space: Small Worlds and World-Systems Analysis (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "World-Systems and Globalization in Archaeology: Assessing Models of Intersocietal Connections 50 Years since Wallerstein’s “The Modern World-System”" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This contribution proposes that world-systems analysis could benefit from greater consideration of a local-scale, or “small world,” perspective. These maritime and terrestrial small worlds, defined by face-to-face interaction and often...
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On the Periphery of the Iron Age World System: “Animal Style Art” in Southeastern Kazakhstan (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "World-Systems and Globalization in Archaeology: Assessing Models of Intersocietal Connections 50 Years since Wallerstein’s “The Modern World-System”" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The commodification of aesthetic traditions in the Eurasian steppe world may be explored as a method for tracing the economic and political spheres of the larger Eurasian World System in the first millennium BCE. This paper will address the...
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Prehistoric World Systems in the Age of the Genetic Revolution: The Eurasian Evidence (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "World-Systems and Globalization in Archaeology: Assessing Models of Intersocietal Connections 50 Years since Wallerstein’s “The Modern World-System”" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The third science revolution has reintroduced migration and mobility as major drivers of change throughout later prehistory in western Eurasia. However, it has also allowed us to revisit and redefine different types of migrations and their...
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Shaping Global History Narratives of the Southern Levant: Lessons Learned from Tall Hisban and the Madaba Plains Region in Jordan (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "World-Systems and Globalization in Archaeology: Assessing Models of Intersocietal Connections 50 Years since Wallerstein’s “The Modern World-System”" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Southern Levant region is critical to our understanding of the nature of globalization and connectivity in prehistoric as well as historical era contexts. This presentation will explore the challenges in shaping WST and global history...
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Water Access and World-Systems: Aquarian versus Terrestially Oriented Polities (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "World-Systems and Globalization in Archaeology: Assessing Models of Intersocietal Connections 50 Years since Wallerstein’s “The Modern World-System”" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The primary focus of world-systems analysis (WSA) is the impact of systemic-level interaction on long-term sociopolitical and economic stasis and change. Differentiation (not equalization) among polities is one of its predicted outcomes....