Globalization and Transculturality from Antiquity to the Pre-Modern World

Serena Autiero, Matthew Adam Cobb

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2021
• ISBN:
  9781000432855
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Indian & South Asian History
• Index: History

This book explores how globalization and transculturality are useful theoretical tools for studying pre-modern societies and their long-distance connections. Among the themes explored are how these concepts can enhance our understanding of trade networks, the spread of religions, the diffusion of global fashions, the migration of technologies, public and private initiatives, and wider cultural changes.

In this book, archaeologists and ancient historians demonstrate how in diverse contexts – from the Bronze Age to colonial times – humanity displayed an urge and an incredible capacity to connect with distant lands and people. Adopting and modifying approaches originally developed for the study of contemporary societies, it is possible to enhance our understanding of the human past, not only in economic terms, but also the cultural significance of such interconnections.

This book provides both the wider public and the specialist reader with a fresh point of view on global issues relating to the past; in turn, allowing us to look anew at developments in the contemporary world. Its large chronological and geographical scope should prove appealing to those who want more than mere Eurocentric history. Teachers and students of world history and archaeology will find this book a useful resource.

Index

Note: Bold page numbers refer to tables; italic page numbers refer to figures.

• abalone 106, 108–109, 111
• academic discipline 27, 30–31
• Aegean 60, 62–64, 67–68, 86, 88–90, 92, 94, 152, 154
  • drinking sets fully embedded at the site 89
  • and an engendered warriorhood during the Late Bronze Age 69
  • and the export of vitreous materials from the 63
  • post-firing marking of wares of the 90
  • and relationship with multiple communities in Cyprus 89
• Afghanistan 126–127, 129–130, 186, 227
• Africa 41, 124, 146–147, 149–150, 231, 249, 252, 255
  • cultivated 40
  • diaspora communities in 252, 256
  • indigenous communities in 255, 259
  • north-east 82, 153, 155
• African 248–249, 251, 256, 259
  • elephants 187–188
  • pottery 252
  • practices 251–252, 256
• Afro-Eurasian Bronze Age 58
• agencement (concept) 9, 81–87, 89, 91, 93–95
• agents 38, 192, 194, 256, 258–259
  • active 227, 247, 256
  • creative 246, 259
  • local 83
  • travelling 192
• agricultural villages 110
• alcoholic beverages 89–90
• Alexander the Great 126...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of figures and table
• List of contributors
• Preface and acknowledgements
• Introduction: utilizing globalization and transculturality for the study of the pre-modern world
• Section I Theory and methodology
• Section II Bronze age globalization
• Section III Globalization in the early historic Indian Ocean
• Section IV Global studies in complex historical contexts
• Index