ANTH201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Elman Service, Natufian Culture, Heterarchy
22 Sep 2016
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In any inquiry about the social past, e first question to address is size or scale. Polity: a politically independent or autonomous social unit, regardless of scale, might be a city state or a band of foragers. Settlement patterns: the ways in which people distribute themselves Live together in the same physical area and feel associated with each other. Sometimes similar to corporate groups (those that may only occasionally get together physically as one body) Eg) meeting someone that used to live in same area as you like toronto, not much snow, lots of pollution a, many people. Categories of people who share common interests or conditions, but may/may not live in the same physical are. Examples: men/women, age groups, political groups, ethnic groups, socio-economic groups, occupations. These categories may cross paths with each other such as political groups in different cities. The emergence of individuals appears with the first sedentarized societies during the natufian period in the levant.
