ANTH 161 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Small Population Size, Elman Service, Arab Spring
2 Jul 2019
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Power: an ability to bring about change through action or influence. Politics: how we organize and regulate power. Arab spring, vendors in tunisia, by 2012 had overthrown. Power is limited and based on achieved status. Autonomous regional structure of political, economic, and military rule, modern western-style states. Monopoly on the legal use of force. Power to make laws and control the population. Also frequently makes use of hegemonic power. Nonstate actors: any coherent group that is outside of state control and has amassed enough power to rival, or at least influence, states. Frans de waal challened the myth of killer apes. Warfare is an intrinsically different act from interpersonal violence. Maintainance of state of war requires specific planning both logistically and culturally. Population has to be willing to maintain war. Militarization: preparation for an ongoing state of warfare. Small rice-farming village in northwestern malaysia with disenfranchised farmers.
