ANTH 1120 Lecture Notes - Jean Briggs, Stateless Society, Igloo
26 Nov 2012
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Anth 1120: making sense of a changing world. Peach is more than absence of aggression, it"s something people work towards. Little inter personal violence- no special warriors. Sharing and cooperation: the jonsi in south africa, how they redistribute meat. The owner of the animals killed isn"t the hunter but the owner of the weapon. In other culture: helping someone deal with the unsatisfied need is the duty of the group. This doesn"t mean that there"s no hostility at all, quite the opposite, in the jonsi who gets the meat and how much can result in violence. For the semai the dissatisfaction, or openly expressing the dissatisfaction is considered dangerous for the group. Egalitarian societies - not all pleased and satisfied with the lack of inequality, but people constantly watch what other have and get, this is what actually keeps equality, this is what keeps from big status differences from forming.
