Intersocietal Inequalities in Very Small World-Systems

非常小的世界体系中的社会间不平等

• 批准号: 9110853
• 负责人: Christopher Chase-Dunn
• 金额: $ 6万
• 依托单位: Johns Hopkins University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1991
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1991-08-15 至 1993-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9110853&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Intersocietal; Inequalities; Very; Small; World

This project examines two isolated (pre-contact) social systems, testing derivations from an extension of world systems theory. The extension predicts that societies having less internal stratification (that is, more egalitarian societies) will develop social institutions making them less susceptible to external conquest or domination. Research focuses on two cases, Califor- nia and Hawaii, both in the time before European contact. Hawaii at that time showed considerable stratification, and California, almost none. This project uses ethnographic records of the societies, including records from interviews stored at Berkeley and at the Smithsonian, and archaeological studies of the two regions. Hypothesis testing requires deriving measures of concepts such as inter- and intra-societal hierarchies from anthropological and archaeological records. Results of this research will improve theoretical understanding of conditions leading to hegemonic relations and the causes of institutions which preserve national independence.

该项目研究了两个孤立（接触前）的社会系统，测试了世界系统理论扩展的推导。 这一延伸预测，内部分层较少的社会（即更加平等的社会）将发展社会制度，使其不易受到外部征服或统治的影响。 研究重点关注加利福尼亚和夏威夷这两个案例，这两个案例都发生在欧洲接触之前的时期。 当时的夏威夷表现出相当大的分层，而加利福尼亚则几乎没有。 该项目使用了这些社会的民族志记录，包括存储在伯克利和史密森尼的采访记录，以及这两个地区的考古研究。 假设检验需要从人类学和考古记录中得出诸如社会间和社会内部等级制度等概念的衡量标准。 这项研究的结果将提高对导致霸权关系的条件和维护国家独立的制度原因的理论理解。