nvitation to Subscription: Social Evolution and History
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Invitation to Subscription:
Social Evolution and History
The new international Journal, Social Evolution and History (SEH),
has been founded to meet the needs of those seeking an understanding of
how human societies developed in the past and continue to develop in the
present. While dozens of journals dealing with organic evolution have the
words ?Biological Evolution? in their titles, hardly a journal exists in
the whole world which includes ?Social Evolution? in its title. This
alone seems like a compelling reason to establish a new journal, devoted
in title and contents, to social evolution specifically.
The editors believe that Social Evolution and History is the
appropriate title for this new journal. It suggests not only the
journal?s contents, but also its theoretical perspective. The journal
will focus on the achievements of different sciences, and examine social
transformations, not as a stream of disjointed events, but as an
intelligible and determinate process, whether involving a shorter or a
longer time span.
The journal?s aim is to contribute to the integration of such
fields of knowledge as anthropology, history, sociology, and the
philosophy and theory of history. Such integration has been lacking until
now, though its necessity has long been felt acutely felt by the academic
community. In the current situation of continuously increasing knowledge
and professional endeavor, any attempt to introduce new methods of
integrating facts with social theory, and to establish interdisciplinary
links, would appear to be especially valuable.
The journal Social Evolution and History is devoted to the study of
many aspects of the evolutionary changes that have occurred over the long
course of human history. We expect to publish theoretical, analytical,
and synthetic articles. SEH hopes to present to our readers the whole
range of modern approaches to social evolution and underscore the
possibility of historical generalizations. SEH is an international
journal which provides for a synthesis of scholarly efforts by scholars
of different nations, representing a wide range of academic traditions.
In its concern with the theoretical dimensions of human history,
SEH will highlight crucial moments and components of history, as well as
the various evolutionary pathways traveled by the world's societies, from
simple villages to civilizations. One of foci of the Journal will be on
the cultural activities of human beings, encompassing all spheres of
everyday life. It will reflect the processes and simultaneities of
cultural change that have occurred on both the microhistorical and
macrohistorical levels.
However, SEH will not deal with purely speculative theories
unrelated to actual data, which neglect the approach and achievements of
modern science. Although the journal will include a broad category of
articles ? as broad as social evolution itself ? it will nevertheless
exclude articles which are ?essentialist? or postmodern in nature, and
which deny the validity of social evolutionary studies.
The Journal is published in English twice a year in March and
September. Two parts form a volume.
Editorial Board
Herbert Barry III, University of Pittsburgh
Yuri Berezkin, Institute of Material Culture History, St. Petersburg
Dmitri Bondarenko, Center for Civilizational and Regional Studies,
Moscow, Editor
Marina Butovskaya, Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Moscow
Luigi Capogrossi Colognesi, La Sapienza University, Rome
Patricia Crone, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Melvin Ember, Human Relations Area Files at Yale University, New Haven
Leonid Grinin, ?Uchitel? Publishing House, Volgograd, Editor
Andrey Korotayev, Russian State University for the Humanities,
Moscow, Editor
Nikolay Kradin, Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography,
Vladivostok
Alf Lьdtke, Max-Planck-Institut fьr Geschichte, Gцttingen
Declan Quigley, University of St. Andrews, Fife
Graeme Snooks, Australian National University, Canberra
Charles Spencer, The American Museum of Natural History, New York
Fred Spier, University of Amsterdam
Advisory Editors Council
Alan Barnard, University of Edinburgh
Leonid Borodkin, Moscow Lomonossov University
Robert Carneiro, The American Museum of Natural History, New York
Christopher Chase-Dunn, University of California, Riverside
Henri Claessen, Leiden University
Randall Collins, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Shmuel Eisenstadt, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Carol Ember, Human Relations Area Files at Yale University, New Haven
Michael Mann, University of
California, Los Angeles
Nikolay Rozov, Novosibirsk
State University
Igor Sledzevski, Center for
Civilizational and Regional Studies,
Moscow
Alexei Vassiliev, Institute for
African Studies, Moscow
Immanuel Wallerstein, Yale
University, New Haven
Forthcoming Articles
Volume 2. Number 1 (March 2003)
Herbert Barry III
Community Customs Associated
with Political Subordination
Christopher Chase-Dunn
Globalization From Below:
Toward a Collectively Rational and
Democratic Global Commonwealth
Moshe Gammer
?Proconsul of the Caucasus?:
A Re-examination of Yermolov
Social Evolution and History in Mesoamerica
Stephen A. Kowalewski
What is the Community? The Long View
from Oaxaca, Mexico
Charles S. Spencer and Elsa M. Redmond
Militarism, Resistance, and Early State Development in Oaxaca, Mexico
Robert M. Carmack
Power and Hierarchy in Mayan Civilization in Historical and
Anthropological Perspective
Volume 2. Number 2
(September 2003)
Declan Quigley and Peter Skalnнk
(Guest Editors)
Ernest Gellner Memorial Special Issue
Volume 1, Number 1 / July 2002
Contents
Articles:
Tim Ingold
On the Distinction between Evolution and History
Graeme D. Snooks
Uncovering the Laws of Global History
Dmitri M. Bondarenko, Leonid E. Grinin,
Andrey V. Korotayev
Alternative Pathways of Social Evolution
Robert L. Carneiro
Was the (subscript: Chiefdom а Congelation of Ideas?)
Henri J. M. Claessen
Was the State Inevitable?
Randall Collins
Geopolitics in an Era of Internationalism
Declan Quigley
Is а Theory of Caste still Possible?
Review Essay:
Stephen K. Sanderson
How Chase-Dunn and Hall Got it Almost Right
Review of Christopher Chase-Dann and Thomas D. Hall,
Rise and Demise: Comparing World-System
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