TY - JOUR AU - Jeske, Robert J. PY - 1996/08/31 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - World Systems Theory, Core Periphery Interactions and Elite Economic Exchange in Mississippian Societies JF - Journal of World-Systems Research JA - JWSR VL - 2 IS - 1 SE - Archeological and Anthropological Approaches to World-Systems DO - 10.5195/jwsr.1996.85 UR - http://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/jwsr/article/view/85 SP - 350-377 AB - 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. ER -