ANTH 1150 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Segmentary Lineage, Division Of Labour

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 1150
• Professor: Victor Gulewitsch

Document Summary

Anth1150 chapter 11 political organization and the maintenance of order. Kinds of political systems: political organization, the means that a human group uses to maintain social order and deduce social disaster, universal, 4 basic kinds, bands (uncentralized, tribes (uncentralized, chiefdoms (centralized, states (centralized) Political leadership and gender: women rarely in top political positions in states, but shifting, women have power in bands, iroquois and igbo. Political organization and the maintenance of order: chiefdoms and states, authority with power to regulate people"s actions, bands and tribes, no centralized authority, depend on gossip, criticism, and fear of supernatural forces. Internalized controls: culture control, control due to internalized beliefs and values, effective deterrents to antisocial behaviour, digest of incest, fear of deformity, disease or death, fear of ghosts or hell. Externalized controls: social control, open coercion, sanctions, conformity to social norms, formal (organized, positive, negative, informal (diffuse, positive, negative.