SOCI 100 Study Guide - Final Guide: Digging Stick, Corvée, Social Inequality

• School: Samford University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 100
• Professor: Bradley

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Hunting and gathering societies sympathetic magic hunting and gathering era headman or shaman animism. Explain the importance of population density for hunters and gatherers. Be prepared for general questions about lenski"s description of the following aspects of hunting and gathering societies: population, kinship, economy, polity, stratification, religion, education, and arts and leisure. Horticultural societies slash-and-burn cultivation metallurgy digging stick ancestor worship. Explain the consequences of the stable and dependable surplus provided by horticulture for occupational specialization, and institutional development. Why are political leaders in advanced horticultural societies more powerful than in either simple horticultural societies or hunting and gathering societies? (hint asking about the emergence of coercive states; leaders with coercive power). Carefully review your notes from the film excerpt we watched in class from, ongka"s big moka. Carefully review your notes from the film, excerpt we watched in class from, aztecs: inside the.