Open AccessWorld Systems Theory, Core Periphery Interactions and Elite Economic Exchange in Mississippian Societies
Author(s) -
Robert J. Jeske
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
journal of world-systems research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.219
H-Index - 2
ISSN - 1076-156X
DOI - 10.5195/jwsr.1996.85
Subject(s) - elite , core (optical fiber) , phenomenon , politics , economic geography , gateway (web page) , hard core , sociology , political science , positive economics , political economy , neoclassical economics , geography , economics , epistemology , computer science , physics , philosophy , law , statistical physics , world wide web , telecommunications
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