ANTH 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Processual Archaeology, George Manuel, Maisin Language
2 Dec 2014
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Political anthropology: groups making decisions, maintaining social order, leadership. Politics-culturally defined use of power in public and in families: barker making collective decisions. 1political paired with the legal 2: maintaining social order. Individuals: affecting change, bonds (foragers, tribes (foragers, horticulturalists, pastoralists, chiefdoms (agriculturalists, states (agriculturalists, industrialism) Isleut tahltan (100 years ago: foragers nomadic, small groups 20-100+ people, closely related kin, emphasis on getting along, egalitarian equal wealth, power, status (age, gender, reciprocity is key, political life get basic things. Informal leadership (band leader: achieved positions (skills, everyone has a chance to participate, situational leadership. Influence ability to achieve a goal by convincing you to see it their way: no force, consensus. Are these really political organizations: tribes, caution-co-opted to mean any group of indigenous people. Autonomous village : horticulturalists, pastoralists (some foragers, larger populations, surpluses of wealth, 10-12,000 years old, groups of bands, shared language, culture, territory, management of wealth/land, more formal leadership to n=manage things, kinship e. g. clans (unilineal)
