Untaming the frontier in anthropology, archaeology, and history / edited by Bradley J. Parker and Lars Rodseth.

• From Turfan to Taiwan: trade and war on two Chinese frontiers / Peter C. Perdue -- Three overlapping frontiers in early modern Bengal: religious, agrarian, imperial / Richard M. Eaton -- The fragmentary frontier: expansion and ethnogenesis in the Himalayas / Lars Rodseth -- The dynamics of military and cultural frontiers on the southeastern edge of the Inka empire / Sonia Alconini -- The final frontier of the Maya: central Petén, Guatemala, 1450-1700 CE / Prudence M. Rice and Don S. Rice -- The meetings of peoples and empires at the confluence of the Missouri, Ohio, and Mississippi rivers / Stephen Aron -- To the supports of heaven: political and ideological conceptions of frontiers in ancient Egypt / Stuart Tyson Smith -- Territory, legacy, and wealth in Iron Age Anatolia / Lynn Swartz Dodd -- The advent of modern education on the Sino-Central Asian frontier / James A. Millward.

• "This book seeks to open a new debate about the processes of frontier history in a variety of cultural contexts, untaming the frontier as an analytic concept and releasing it in a range of unfamiliar settings. Drawing on examples from over four millennia, it shows that, throughout history, societies have been formed and transformed in relation to their frontiers, and that no one historical case represents the normal or typical frontier pattern." "The contributors - anthropologists, archaeologists, and historians - present numerous examples of the frontier as a shifting zone of innovation and recombination through which cultural materials from many sources have been unpredictably channeled and transformed. At the same time, they reveal recurring processes of frontier history that enable world-historical comparison: the emergence of the frontier in relation to a core area; the mutually structuring interactions between frontier and core; and the development of social exchange, merger, or conflict between previously separate populations brought together on the frontier."--Jacket. 

Ämnesord

World history.  (LCSH)

Economic history.  (LCSH)

Ethnology  -- Philosophy. (LCSH)

Archaeology  -- Philosophy. (LCSH)

Human beings  -- Migrations. (LCSH)

Histoire universelle.  (Vedettes-matière)

Histoire économique.  (Vedettes-matière)

Ethnologie  -- Philosophie. (Vedettes-matière)

Archéologie  -- Philosophie. (Vedettes-matière)

Homme  -- Migrations. (Vedettes-matière)

Economic history.  (fast)

World history.  (fast)

Frontier.  (gtt)

Grenzen.  (gtt)

Culturele aspecten.  (gtt)

Antropologische aspecten.  (gtt)

Grenze  (gnd)

Geschichtswissenschaft  (gnd)

Anthropologie  (gnd)

Archäologie  (gnd)

Archaeology  -- Philosophy. (fast)

Ethnology  -- Philosophy. (fast)

Human beings  -- Migrations. (fast)

Arkeologi  -- teori, filosofi (sao)

Etnologi  -- teori, filosofi (sao)

Klassifikation

GN345 (LCC)

305.8001 (DDC)

M (kssb/8 (machine generated))