CAS AN 101 Lecture Notes - Ridicule, Social Control
18 Feb 2014
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Anthropologists have thought about the relationship of power and politics. Giving you the tools and the map. They never neatly fit into the boxes. Acts as the controlling aspect of power. Power: the ability to impose one"s will upon others. Can happen to an individual and to groups. Control others (the ability to do so) Political organization the way that power is accumulated, arranged, executed, and structurally distributed and embedded in society. Polis a greek city: the greek polis. A self governing entity: a self governing city, our expansion and our concept of the political. Takes many different forms: state that we"re most familiar with now is recent and only one type, kin ordered societies political power isn"t centralized. We"re painting a falsely clear picture of this: Found among food foragers and other small scale migratory populations: the predominate form among pre-neolithic revolution groups, smaller than a hundred people, no need for formalized political systems.
