ANT101H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: State Religion, Complex Differential Form, Social Stratification
Document Summary
The origins of the first civilizations and the future evolution of the human species. Status rights, duties, privileges & powers that accrue to a recognized and named social position. Limited position of valued status so that not everyone of sufficient talent can actually achieve them. Social structure with hierarchy in which relatively perm social stations are maintained. People have unequal access to life sustaining resources. Gender & sex still play a role in the division of labour. Tend to have economies that redistribute goods & services t/o the community. Those that do the redistribution keep some portion for themselves. This creates one r more ranked social tiers. Intensive agriculture specialists (potters, stone masons, weavers) highly centralized government, with a professional ruling class. Large populations with residential patterns based on occupational specialization. Elite class control complex economy market system ; makes laws; privileged access to key goods, services, ideology.
