AN101 Lecture : Chapter 8.docx

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Can human exist without some people ruling and others being ruled? . It is something that can be expected everywhere. Harris has a diachronic approach and a synchronic approach. For millenniums our ancestors lived in small nomadic (to move from place to place looking for resources) hunter-gatherer bands. People ruling and others being ruled is not something natural for human beings as a species since for more then 10 000 years our ancestors lived without rulers, kings presidents, governors, or police. Synchronic (in this moment but in different places in the world) argument. Some people still live in bands and manage to live without our kind of political system. Usually a small group of people (less then 50). Most of the time they are kin. Labor is divided according to age and sex. Social relations are highly egalitarian everyone is equal, there is no one accumulating wealth or power over others.

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