centre and periphery comparative studies in archaeology

[...]... palace and churches and the burial of royalty in the nave of a church testify, and was a powerful instrument in legitimating and expanding royal power Recognizing centre and periphery The concept of centre and periphery has now been so widely used that it is necessary to think about its definition in specific contexts Even in the modern world there is no automatic correlation between political centres and. .. transformed into world empires by political expansion; he cites in CENTRE AND PERIPHERY 7 particular China, Persia and Rome (Wallerstein 1974, p 16) The contrast is therefore between the economic integration of modern world systems in the form of world economies, and the essentially political nature of those in pre-modern times In extending the debate on centre- periphery relations to archaeology, and attempting... Studies in the Development of Complex Societies’ was to find ways of initiating new forms of debate within archaeology and to situate it more firmly within a broader field of debate embracing anthropology, sociology, and history as well Some of the attempts to reforge the links between archaeology and these other disciplines, by concentrating on methods of meaningful debate about social relations in. .. as a ‘borrowing’ which shows archaeology s own intellectual impoverishment, but as sign of archaeology s close connection to contemporary debate in other important areas of social enquiry, and of its ability to contribute meaningfully to that debate Centre and periphery The concepts of centre and periphery, in various ways and in various degrees of specificity, have had a long history in western European... tendency for new and dynamic societies to emerge on the fringes of old and declining ones, as did Macedonia on the northern borders of the Greek world, or the Manchu in the case of China, in a pattern of progressive shifting of power from the centre to the periphery This not only applied the concept of centre and periphery on a larger scale and within a frame that was not clearly defined by any natural... population and its social subgroupings, or being recognized by ‘outsiders’ as constituting a distinctive cultural grouping The nature of such groupings, and the difficulty of securely identifying them in the archaeological record, is discussed in several chapters of Archaeological approaches to cultural identity (edited by S.J.Shennan) In Centre and periphery it is argued that, at least in certain cases,... led inevitably to detailed questions about imperialism, colonialism, and acculturation In part these forms of relationships are a matter of ideology (of ‘empire’, of ‘nation’, and of ethnic groups), but it is the mechanisms of expansion, incorporation, and maintenance which are clearly vital to our understanding of the past and present, and which are examined in some detail The main themes in Centre and. .. As Centre and periphery makes clear through various case studies, the nature and organization of such invisible production and exchange of even materialistic items in one example it being the business of individual households and, in another, exclusively concerned with non-luxury goods—may completely alter the nature of our understanding of the complexities of the systems under review We must, in any... settlement and urbanism London: Duckworth Contents List of contributors page vi Foreword P.J.Ucko viii Preface Timothy C.Champion xxi Introduction Timothy C.Champion 1 Centre and periphery 2 Development and underdevelopment 4 Wallerstein and world systems 5 Diffusionism reinvented? 9 Archaeological applications Recognizing centre and periphery 13 The rôle of the semi -periphery 16 The incorporation of the periphery. .. being a ‘luxury’ used for medicinal, flavouring, and decorative purposes to become the basis of plantation economies in the periphery and a key element in the new patterns of diet, employment, and CENTRE AND PERIPHERY 9 social relations of the industrial world in the core To raise a graded distinction between luxury and utilitarian goods to the level of absolute opposition and then to deny the economic . maintenance which are clearly vital to our understanding of the past and present, and which are examined in some detail. The main themes in Centre and periphery have been discussed in detail in. Past? Indigenous values and archaeology R.Layton (ed.), vol. 5 ii iii Centre and Periphery Comparative Studies in Archaeology Edited by T.C.Champion London and New York First published in 1989. regional administrative centres with an inevitable complexity of relations existing between centres and the hinterland. Given this complexity, which exists in the absence of literacy in the Inca state,