Centre and Periphery: comparative studies in archaeology Page 1 Centre and Periphery
Comparative Studies in Archaeology Edited by TC CHAMPION ROUTLEDGE ONE WORLD …

Until fairly recently, archaeological research has been directed primarily toward the centers
of societies rather than their perimeters. Yet frontiers and borders, precisely because they …

This collaborative volume is concerned with long-term social change. Envisaging individual
societies as interlinked and interdependent parts of a global social system, the aim of the …

To the extent that any society must interact with other societies in consumption and
production, it is necessary for archaeologists to consider the larger system of relationships in …

Although the study of frontiers is of fundamental importance to a variety of academic fields
and subdisciplines, few researchers have proposed terminology, models or conceptual …

This unique book offers a theoretical framework for historical archaeology that explicitly
relies on network theory. Charles E. Orser, Jr., demonstrates the need to examine the impact …

The article considers the importance of frontier studies in historical archaeology and
discusses applicability of some of the concepts deriving from postcolonial theories for a …

This collection addresses an audience of early medievalists with an interest in material
culture and its use in building ethnic boundaries. The traditional concept of frontier is a …

" This highly original and challenging book defies every easy form of classification.
Ostensibly about early polities, its penetrating and erudite asides extend with equal facility …

Sander Van Der Leeuw, in his recent plenary address at the 1998 Society for American
Archaeology Meetings, suggested that archaeology as a discipline has moved its emphasis …