PSCI 1004 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Thx, Patrilineality, Primordialism
11 Mar 2016
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Need to maintain the communal order as a whole in the face of the pressures of primary existence to ensure economic survivability and ecological sustainability. Adherence to the alivee presence and legitimate authority of ancestors often through rituals involving animist symbols and art. Rules and practices governing the bonds of blood and family disciplined by honor and shame. Matrilineal and patrilineal divisions as methods of inheritance and intergenerational bonding. Increasing sustainability from subsistence to surplus: nomadic foraging (moon and sun, horticulture (sun, animal husbandry (sun, moon, fence, small-scale agriculture or (fence, peasant farming (pays) or intensive agriculture (roof/fence) Kinship rules and practices respond to the problem of scarcity. Primordial agricultural systems become dysfunctional in the modern world bc of surplus. Their shame disciplines created highly inflexible culture. Agri surplus is the reason traditional communities gave way to centralized states. 1400 a. d. exponential rise in surprise rise in modern times thx to surplus. Chiefdoms based in the notion of dynastic rule.
