World Systems Theory, Core Periphery Interactions and Elite Economic Exchange in Mississippian Societies

Authors

  • Robert J. Jeske University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5195/jwsr.1996.85

Abstract

World Systems Theory has been one approach used to explain the rise of the Mississippian social and political phenomenon. In this paper it is argued that a hierarchical model of core-periphery interaction does not explain the Cahokianphenomenon, because several crucial clements of such a model cannot be demonstrated to have existed within the Mississippian system. It is suggested that looking at Mississippian society as a differential core-peripheral system may have utility as a framework for including concepts such as gateway communities and interaction spheres previously used to describe the economic interactions between Cahokia and its neighbors.

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Published

1996-08-31

How to Cite

Jeske, R. J. (1996). World Systems Theory, Core Periphery Interactions and Elite Economic Exchange in Mississippian Societies. Journal of World-Systems Research, 2(1), 350–377. https://doi.org/10.5195/jwsr.1996.85

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Archeological and Anthropological Approaches to World-Systems