ANTH 1150 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Long Beach Chiefs, Mae, Headmen
10 Feb 2014
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Warfare among sedentary village societies: the more people invest in improving their environment, the more likely they will defend their territory and take land or other resources from the defeated group. Harris chapter 11: origins of chiefdoms & the state. 1. intensification: political integration, social stratification, political integration functions to coordinate production, distribution and defense in multifamily settings, services provided by leaders afford opportunities to control production and allocation of resources. From big man systems into chiefdoms: headmen function as intensifiers of production and redistributors, big men emerge when technological and ecological conditions encourage intensification. Leaders in the same village become rivals: they compete to redistribute the greatest amount of valuables. The most successful gets labeled big men and gain prestige: to evolve into chiefdoms, changes in the big men system must happen, size of population. There"s a hierarchy of offices at regional and community levels: at lower end, chiefdoms are similar to big men systems.
