Archaic State Interaction Parkinson William A.
Archaic State Interaction Parkinson William A. In current archaeological research the failure to find common ground between world-systems theory believers and their counterparts has resulted in a…
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Archaic State Interaction Parkinson William A.
In current archaeological research the failure to find common ground between world-systems theory believers and their counterparts has resulted in a stagnation of theoretical development in regards to modeling how early state societies interacted with their neighbors. By shifting the theoretical focus away from questions of state evolution to state interaction, the authors develop anthropological models for understanding how ancient states interacted with one another and with societies of different scales of economic and political organization. This book is an attempt to redress these issues.
The result is an innovative approach to modeling social interaction that will be helpful in exploring the relationship between social processes that occur at different geographic scales One of their goals has been to identify a theoretical middle ground that is neither dogmatic nor dismissive.