ANT-1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Ceramic Art, Glossary Of Riemannian And Metric Geometry, Athabaskan Languages
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Fundamental forms of government: founded upon people with purely personal relationships (may be described as a society). They follow the gens successive stages of integration. The gens, the phatry, the tribe and the confederacy of the tribes constitute a people or nation: founded upon territory + property. The township or ward, with the property it contains, is the basis/unit of the territory and political society is the result. Political society is organized upon territorial areas + deals with property as well as with people through territorial relations. It is no longer accessible to explain the existence of the domestic institutions within the savages. There is no human support for the existence of savages. The aryan ancestors passed through similar experiences with savage and barbarian tribes. Through the experience of these nations, one can gather information about the periods of civilization.
