ANTHRCUL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Teotihuacan, Upper Class

• School: U of M
• Department: Anthropology, Cultural
• Course: ANTHRCUL 101
• Professor: Dumes

Document Summary

From food production to origins of the state: denser populations+regulatory problems > complex political hierarchy. Chiefdom: a polity w/ hereditary leaders and permanent political structure, but lacking class division. Ideal types of hierarchy: band, tribe, chiefdom, state. Social ranking within different polities: egalitarian society, status distinctions on age, gender, and individual attributes, not inherited, most common among foragers, ranked society: Inherited, but not strati cation: social division w/ unequal sharing of wealth and power: strati ed society, class status is inherited, upper class have wealth eg. occupy wall street example. State: a society with a central government, administrative specialisation, and social classes. Theories of state formation: hydraulic agriculture (irrigation), egypt+mesopotamia, regional trade, crossroads of routes and places that threaten trade, population increase/war, environment has boundaries that cut it off from other areas eg. arid coastal peru(?) Characteristics of states:memorize: regional control, social division by class, productive farming, monumental architecture-eg. 7 wonders, writing.