Centre and Periphery

• List of contributors page, Foreword, Preface, Introduction, 1 Metropole and margin: the dependency theory and the political economy of the Solomon Islands, 1880–1980, 2 The greater Southwest as a periphery of Mesoamerica, 3 Explaining the Iroquois: tribalization on a prehistoric periphery, 4 Divergent trajectories in central Italy, 1200–500 BC, 5 Greeks and natives in south-east Italy: approaches to the archaeological evidence, 6 Greeks, Etruscans, and thirsty barbarians: Early Iron Age interaction in the Rhône Basin of France, 7 The impact of the Roman amphora trade on pre-Roman Britain, 8 Interactions between the nomadic cultures of central Asia and China in the Middle Ages, 9 Diffusion and cultural evolution in Iron Age Serbia, 10 Acculturation and ethnicity in Roman Moesia Superior, 11 Native American acculturation in the Spanish colonial empire: the Franciscan missions of Alta California, 12 The town, the power, and the land: Denmark and Europe during the first millennium AD, 13 Great Moravia between the Franconians, Byzantium and Rome, Index

'This span of time and place is succesfully unified by skilful editing to bring out some important themes concerning the `Centre/Periphery' framework and, especially, the problems of recognising ethnicity in the archaeological record.' - Oxbow Book News'Champion's "Introduction" provides a general analysis of asymmetrical interactions, or those "between societies with markedly diferent patterns of social and economic organization" ... This outstanding overview creates an effective framework on which to hang 13 diverse papers. These papers are tightly written and good editing has successfully merged them into a very useful volume. - American Antiquity