ANT 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Tunxis Community College, Paramount Chief
6 Jan 2021
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Extensive set of offices, pyramid of higher and lowers chiefs over polities. Chief rules by genealogical connections to the divine (ex. Chief had privileges which gave them extraordinary abilities to exercise their funds of power. Had the rights to call upon labor and productive resources of the households that they rules. Redistribution of the fund of power was his leverage. Malinowski: amassing fund of power: amassing a fund of power. A big man creates and uses social relations- leverage on others. Indispensable means of creating super local organizations. Chief: according to sahlins major areas for potential strife in the chief system in. Some gave too much to their own chiefly establishment and this caused resentment and rebellion among commoners. Luxury, items, ceremonies and commoners or even middle chiefs may not get as much. Because in charge of polities that are spread out- difficult to maintain all polities. Decentralization caused smaller chiefdom to break off and then later become reconstituted.
