出版社：American Sociological Association Section on Political Economy of the World System
摘要：I begin with an overview of David G. Anderson's The Savannah River Chief-doms: Political Change in the Late Prehistoric Southeast (1994). This book is based on many years of fi eld research as a staff member of the National Park Service. In this account Anderson combines archaeological research with various theories of chiefdoms and careful use of ethnohistorical documents. In this he provides a model of how to do such research without reading the present into the past, nor the past into the future, yet still gain insights from each for the other. This is extremely important in dealing with nonstate societies, because even where states and writing do exist, the very pres-ence of a literate person is nearly always an indication that pris-tine conditions have been disrupted. By "pristine" I mean a setting composed only of chiefdoms, with no states present. This is especially important if one wants to examine how states were fi rst invented
