ANT200H5 Lecture : ANT200 (Nov 8).docx
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Social conditions of human life: social relations. All human societies have social relations: social scale. Provides us with a set of assumptions. All humans are born into families and live in household. Remove a human from a household and you"ll have a traumatized human: community. All humans live in community, small scale or large: society. There are stations which are specialized places to do something special like catching fishes and then go back to camp a day or two later: unranked and unstratified. Everybody has equal access to roles, equal opportunity. Semi : stay at one place, but there are resources that are not always right there so they must travel occasionally to other stations to get it, segmentd, unstratified. There are headmans that are selected democratically and maintain their position by examples and doing what they"re supposed to do. Chief: 5-20k, towns, monuments, town (cahokia, sedentary (can be occupied for hundreds of years, hierarchical settlement system.
