The Cup of Gyptis: Rethinking the Colonial Encounter in Early-Iron-Age Western Europe and the Relevanceof World-Systems Models

Dietler, Michael

doi:10.1179/096576695800703720

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“…He also emphasized that WST pays too much attention to political economy and too little to the transfer of knowledge. While accepting that world-systems theories do have some value in the concepts of core, semi-periphery and periphery, Killick, following Dietler (1995), proposed that these useful bits must be disengaged from the concepts of unequal exchange and dependency. He thus proposed scrapping most of WST and integrating material analysis with exchange of ideas.…”

Section: World-systems Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

Interconnections: glass beads and trade in southern and eastern Africa and the Indian Ocean - 7th to 16th centuries AD

Wood¹

2012

Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa

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Glass beads comprise the most frequently found evidence of trade between southern Africa and the greater Indian Oceanbetween the 7 th and 16 th centuries AD. In this thesis beads recovered from southern African archaeological sites are organized into series, based on morphology and chemical composition determined by LA-ICP-MS analysis. The results are used to interpret the trade patterns and partners that linked eastern Africa to the rest of the Indian Ocean world, as well as interconnections between southern Africa andEast Africa. Comprehensive reports on bead assemblages from several archaeological sites are presented, including: Mapungubwe, K2 and Schroda in the Shashe-Limpopo Basin; Chibuene in southern Mozambique; Hlamba Mlonga in eastern Zimbabwe; Sibudu Cave in KwaZulu-Natal, Kaole Ruins in Tanzania and Mahilaka in northwest Madagascar. The conclusions reached show that trade relationships and socio-political development in the south were different from those on the East Coast and that changes in bead series in the south demonstrate it was fully integrated into the cycles of the Eurasian and African world-system.

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Section: World-systems Analysismentioning

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Interconnections: glass beads and trade in southern and eastern Africa and the Indian Ocean - 7th to 16th centuries AD

Wood¹

2012

Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa

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“…And no amount of postcolonial theory should be allowed to make it so. Not only can the parties involved in eastern Iberia not be labelled 'colonizers and colonized', but this is no more a colonial situation than that described by Dietler (1995).…”

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confidence: 84%

Striking a Local-Global Balance in Eastern Iberia

Hodos

2009

JMA

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“…Applied to the Iron Age, this produces a more sophisticated view of how and why people might incorporate foreign categories of both ideational and material things into their daily lives-some utilitarian, some social or political. The popularity of deconstructing dependence and theorizing selective adoption and transformation of Mediterranean culture led to studies indicating that even in terms of style, outside influence was sometimes minimal (Dietler 1995b;Randsborg 1992, p. 17) and has been overinterpreted by certain classicists and those using their paradigms.…”

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Unity and Diversity in the European Iron Age: Out of the Mists, Some Clarity?

Thurston

2009

J Archaeol Res

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While some researchers continue to focus fruitfully on traditional issues, in recent years new perspectives, some strongly revisionist, have developed within European Iron Age archaeology, moving it from a long-static state into a rapidly changing milieu. Studies of colonialism, imperialism, and interaction have undergone sequential shifts into new territory, while topics related to sacred activity, political apparatuses, and the ruler-subject relationship have undergone substantial reworking. Perspectives absent from earlier literature have emerged: gender, age, ethnicity, and identity, and interpretations employing theories of practice, agency, landscape, and embodiment have emerged, mirroring broader disciplinary shifts. An overarching trend sees Iron Age Europe as a series of interactive societies with both broad similarities and sharp regional, even local, differences, moving through time and ever-changing relationships, influences, and trajectories. The collision of traditional and revisionist scholarship has produced debate, some heated, but has improved and invigorated the field.

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The Cup of Gyptis: Rethinking the Colonial Encounter in Early-Iron-Age Western Europe and the Relevanceof World-Systems Models

Cited by 60 publications

References 19 publications

Interconnections: glass beads and trade in southern and eastern Africa and the Indian Ocean - 7th to 16th centuries AD

Interconnections: glass beads and trade in southern and eastern Africa and the Indian Ocean - 7th to 16th centuries AD

Striking a Local-Global Balance in Eastern Iberia

Unity and Diversity in the European Iron Age: Out of the Mists, Some Clarity?

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