Anthropology and Global History explains the origin and development of human societies and cultures from their earliest beginnings to the present-utilizing an anthropological lens but also drawing from sociology, economics, political science, history, and ecological and religious studies.

ContentsINTRODUCTIONCHAPTER 1 DEFINING WORLD-SYSTEMS AND CIVILIZATIONSVignette: A World-System and Civilization Framework for Understanding the 9/11 Twin Towers AttackConceptualizing World-SystemsCase Study 1: Construction of a Hydroelectric dam in a Peripheral Costa Rican CommunityConceptualizing CivilizationsCase Study 2: Wilkinson's Argument that "Civilizations are World Systems"CHAPTER 2 HISTORY OF TRIBAL SOCIETIES AND CULTURESVignette: First Contacts with the Papuan Tribal Peoples of New GuineaHistorical Overview of Tribal Societies and CulturesPre-Historic Transformation from Bands to TribesCase Study 3: Yanomami Tribal PeoplesHistorical Emergence of Tribal ChiefdomsCase Study 4: Powhatan ChiefdomContemporary "Tribal Nations" (Australian Aborigines, Waziristan Pashtun Tribes, Garifuna)CHAPTER 3 HISTORY OF ANCIENT TRIBUTARY SOCIETIES AND CULTURESVignette: Understanding an Ancient Cuneiform Tablet from MesopotamiaHistorical Overview of the Ancient Eurasian Tributary Societies and CulturesAncient Fertile Crescent (Mesopotamia, Egypt and Northeast Africa, Persia)Case Study 5: Emergence of Ancient Israel and JudaismAncient Asia (China, India)Ancient Europe (Greece, Rome)Case Study 6: Samir Amin's Perspective on the Ancient Network of Eurasian World-Systems and Classic CivilizationsCHAPTER 4 HISTORY OF LATE PRE-MODERN TRIBUTARY SOCIETIES AND CULTURESVignette: Mohammed the Messenger, Founder of an Islamic State and ReligionHistorical Overview of Late Pre-Modern Eurasian Societies and CulturesImperial Core Powers of the Late Pre-Modern Eurasian World-System (Islamic, Chinese, and Byzantine empires)Case Study 7: Mediating Role of India within the Thirteenth-Century Eurasian Trade NetworkFeudal Peripheries of the Late Pre-Modern Eurasian World-System (Western Europe, Japan)Case Study 8: Russia, from Feudalism to EmpireLate Pre-Modern "Outer Peripheral" and "Frontier" States (Sub-Sahara African States,Late Pre-Modern New World "Frontier" States)Case Study 9: Quetzalcoatl, a Mesoamerican Frontier Culture HeroCHAPTER 5 HISTORY OF THE MODERN WORLD-SYSTEM AND ITS "OCCIDENTAL" CIVILIZATIONVignette: Queen Elizabeth at the Dawn of the Modern EraDefining "Occidentalism"Modern World-System and Its Western Core PowersCase Study 10: U.S. rise to World-System HegemonyWestern Civilization and Its Impact on the Modern World-SystemModern World-System Periphery and Resistance to the Western Core PowersCase Study 11: Occidentalism and Resistance through Heroic SuicideCHAPTER 6 HISTORY OF THE MODERN WORLD-SYSTEM AND ITS "ORIENTAL" CIVILIZATIONSVignette: Empress Dowager Cixi and Xuan Tong (Pu Yi), the Last Chinese EmperorDefining "Orientalism"Asia in the Context of the Modern World-System Periphery (China, Japan)Case Study 12: The Changing Role of Caste in Modern IndiaMiddle East in the Context of the Modern World-System PeripheryCase Study 13: Iraq and the Saddam Hussein WarsCHAPTER 7 HISTORY OF THE MODERN WORLD-SYSTEM AND ITS "POST-COLONIAL" CIVILIZATIONSVignette: Initial Encounter between Spanish Colonizers and the InkaDefining "Post-Colonialism"Latin America in the Context of the Modern World-System PeripheryCase Study 14: The Virgin of Guadalupe Cult, a Post-colonial Mexican LegacySub-Sahara Africa in the Context of the Modern World-System PeripheryCase Study 15: Post-Colonial Symbolism and Indigenous Leaders in Modern South AfricaCHAPTER 8 HISTORICAL ROUTES TO MODERNIZATION WITHIN THE MODERN WORLD-SYSTEM: DEVELOPMENT AND REVOLUTIONVignette: Robespierre and the French RevolutionModernization through DevelopmentCase Study 16: Development in TurkeyModernization through RevolutionCase Study 17: Revolution in NicaraguaFailed Development, Failed RevolutionCase Study 18: Rwanda's Failed Development and Failed RevolutionCHAPTER 9 HISTORY OF POST-MODERNIZATION AND THE FUTURE OF THE MODERN WORLD-SYSTEM AND ITS CIVILIZATIONSVignette: McWorld vs. JihadDefining the "Post-ModernizationCase Study 19: U.S. Modernism Versus European Post-ModernismDefining the "Postmodern" PerspectiveCase Study 20: Michele Foucault, a Pioneer PostmodernistCompeting Perspectives on the Future of the Modern World (Postmodern, Social History, Anthropological, World-System, and Civilizations)Summary and ConclusionsGlossaryBibliographyIndexAbout the Author