ANT 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Market Economy, Ascribed Status, Risk Management

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANT 1101
• Professor: Deborah Sick

Document Summary

Ant 1101 lecture a1 kinds of political system : decentralized systems , tribes , bands, centralized systems , chiefdoms , states . Today all exist under state authority: bands and tribes (note: different than canadian & us government designations, mainly found in subsistence-based economics . Reciprocity- based; some redistribution ; (cid:1087) : low population densities (cid:1146) , none-few socio-economic differences, maintain of order , leaders: no absolute authority : . Persuasion : social control primarily via. Social sanctions (cid:2678: organization: informal and temporary : , bands, v. small; fluid and mobile family-groups (cid:1288) , decisions usually by consensus of adults (cid:1654) , mobility helps diffuse tensions (cid:1288) (cid:1289) , tribes , small, autonomous local communities ,(cid:1698) . More or less permanent leaders: authority to make decisions : . Ascribed status usually seniority in ranked kin group) (cid:1145) (cid:1380) ) Power is vested in the office (cid:1697) (cid:1380) : states (c. 5000 bp) , most formal of political organizations .