ANTHROP 1AB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Karl Polanyi, Conspicuous Consumption, Marcel Mauss
20 Mar 2016
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Political economy making a living and governing society. Sociopolitical exercise of power, regulation of relations among groups and representatives, including informal decision-making, dispute management and conflict resolution. Authority formal, socially-approved use of power and force. Power informal ability to exercise one"s will over others: persuasion, charisma weapons of the weak . 4 types or levels of sociopolitical organization: band usually 50 people or less, no formal leader, tribe, chiefdom first form with formal political offices (chief), state. Labels exist within a sociopolitical typology and tend to correlate with adaptive strategies. In bands and tribes, political organization is not separate and distinct from total social order leadership relies on informal exercise of power. Chiefdoms and states distinguished from other political forms by formality in political and legal structures formal authority. An economy is a system of production, distribution, and consumption of resources. Every economic system represents an attempt to solve 3 fundamental and interdependent problems: (in a society)
