ANT200H5 Lecture Notes - Cultural Anthropology, T Gauge
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Formal to spatial to temporal to material to social to ideational (expect ideational on the exam) in a sense they are all linked to eachother but in a specific order so to speak. Social conditions of human life : anything that has to do with humans living in groups, homo habulous 2000 years ago. Social relations are the links that exist between people and among people but also amongst groups, we look at these using structures that social cultural anthropology has come up with. We can look at this through: family & househould: community, society we live in one or more societies that we identify with which is also relative towards the language that one speaks. 2 divisons of society in terms of social scale: egalitarian unranked (band) & segmented (tribe). No formal leaderhip: stratified there is temp leadership that is not inherited, simple (chiefdom, complex (state) Highly so to speak specialized dependent monument s sedentary.
