Globalization and transculturality from antiquity to the pre-modern world / edited by Serena Autiero and Matthew Adam Cobb.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Utilizing globalization and transculturality for the study of the pre-modern world / Serena Autiero and Matthew A. Cobb -- From the field to the globe : the archaeology of globalization / Serena Autiero -- Globalization, the highest stage of modernization? / Dario Nappo -- Bronzization, the globalization of the Bronze Age in Afro-Eurasia / Tibor-Tamás Daróczi -- Agencement, matter flows and itinerary of object in the Bronze Age East Mediterranean : a new materialities approach to globalization / Louise Steel -- Dragon divers and clamorous fishermen : bronzization and transcultural marine spaces in the Japanese Archipelago / Mark Hudson -- Archaeology of globalization : a retrospective view of the Indian Ocean world and implications for the present (500 BCE - 300 CE) / Sunil Gupta -- Oikoumenisation and the Ptolemaic beginnings of the Indian Ocean trade / Troy Wilkinson -- Mediterranean goods in an Indian context : the use of transcultural theory for the study of the ancient Indian Ocean world / Matthew A. Cobb -- The Indian figurine from Pompeii as an emblem of East-West trade in the early Roman imperial era / Laura R. Weinstein -- A universal dhamma : Buddhism and globalization at the time of Aśoka / Signe Cohen -- Globalization and Gandhāra art / Ashwini Lakshminarayanan -- Glocalization as a key to understanding cultural change in São Paulo's colonial ceramics / Marcelo Rolim Manfrini.

"This book explores how globalization and transculturality are useful theoretical tools for studying pre-modern societies and their long-distance connections. Among the themes explored are how these concepts can enhance our understanding of trade networks, the spread of religions, the diffusion of global fashions, the migration of technologies, public and private initiatives, and wider cultural changes. In this book, archaeologists and ancient historians demonstrate how in diverse contexts -from the Bronze Age to Colonial times - humanity displayed an urge and an incredible capacity to connect with distant lands and people. Adopting and modifying approaches originally developed for the study of contemporary societies, it is possible to enhance our understanding of human past, not only in economic terms, but also the cultural significance of such interconnections. This book provides both the wider public and the specialist reader with a fresh point of view on global issues relating to the past; in turn, allowing us to look a new at developments in the contemporary world. Its large chronological and geographical scope should prove appealing to those who want more than mere Eurocentric history. Teachers and students of world history and archaeology will find this book as a useful resource"-- Provided by publisher.