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标题：Puzzles in the Comparative Study of Frontiers: Problems, Some Solutions, and Methodological Implications
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作者：Thomas D. Hall
期刊名称：Journal of World-Systems Research
电子版ISSN：1076-156X
出版年度：2009
卷号：15
期号：1
出版社：American Sociological Association Section on Political Economy of the World System
摘要：This paper examines ways in which world-system analysis can be employed fruitfully to explore frontier social processes. Conversely, it also examines how frontier social processes and events can be very valuable explorations of highly localized processes – geographically and temporally – of world-systems. The study of frontier regions can help to uncover the ways in which many world-systemic contexts shape local human agency. Conversely, the study of these highly localized human practices offers ways to gain insights to how individual actions constantly reconstruct world-systems. Finally, many of the lessons learned here with respect to frontiers, especially in regard to ethnic and national identity formation and transformation can be extended to other social concerns.