Kajsa Ekholm Friedman, Jonathan Friedman

Historical Transformations

The Anthropology of Global Systems

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Historical Transformations takes a comprehensive look at global systemic anthropology, presenting the authors' three decades of research in the social sciences.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Altamira Press
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 482g
• ISBN-13: 9780759111110
• ISBN-10: 0759111111
• Artikelnr.: 34565452

Autorenporträt

Kajsa Ekholm Friedman is professor in the Department of Social Anthropology at Lund University, Sweden.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Social Reproduction, Social Transformation, and Global Process
Chapter 1 Marxist Theory and Systems of Total Reproduction
Chapter 2 Crises in Theory and Transformations of the World Economy
Part II: Global Process and Long Term Change
Chapter 3 The Study of Risks in Social Systems: An Anthropological
Perspective
Chapter 4 Notes towards an Epigenetic Model of the Evolution of
"Civilization"
Chapter 5 Structural Perspectives on the Bronze Age: Economic, Political
and Social Integration
Chapter 6 "Capital" Imperialism and Exploitation in Ancient World Systems
Chapter 7 Transnationalization, Socio-political Disorder, and Ethnification
as Expressions of Declining Global Hegemony
Part III: Structure and History: Transformational Models
Chapter 8 External Exchange and the Transformation of Central African
Social Systems
Chapter 9 "Sad Stories of the Death of Kings:" The Involution of Divine
Kingship
Chapter 10 Notes on Structure and History in Oceania
Chapter 11 Morphogenesis and Global Process in Polynesia