ANT 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Tunxis Community College, Metanarrative, Comparative Politics
6 Jan 2021
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But its quite clear from societies in contemporary world that there are and have. Ingles thought he saw the image of a communist society. Ingles was not completely justified in his over idealization of the iroquois. M. fried: political structure 3 fold been societies which are organized on a more egalitarian basis than the state-level stratified societies. Ex: potlatch societies - one"s rank hinges on ones ability to give away stuff. Fried doesn"t make a distinction between what he calls flexible and fixed ranking. Just introduces the category of ranking and we will see that as a category ranking needs to be specified further (flexible or fixed) When we introduced the notions of flexibility and fixed rank, Freid"s three fold scheme becomes a four fold scheme and we might suggest that service"s scheme corresponds to this specification (flexible = tribe, fixed = chiefdom) Generally speaking these types arrayed in an apparent evolutionary order.
