ANT 1101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Kalahari Desert, Political Organisation, San People
28 Nov 2016
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Haviland chapter 12; politics, power, war, and peace. Political organisation: the was power, as the capacity to do something, is accumulated, arranged, executed, and structurally embedded in society; the means through which a society creates and maintains social order and reduces social disorder. Until recently, many non-western people have had neither chiefs with established rights and duties or fixed form of government, as those who live in modern states understand the term. Marriage and kinship formed their principle means of social organization. Political organization is shared (nobody with exclusive control) important decisions are made collectively among adults. : a relatively small and loosely organized kin-ordered group that inhabits a specific territory and that may split periodically into smaller extended family groups that are politically and economically independent. Found among food foragers and other small-scale migratory communities. Bands typically break up into smaller groups to forage for food or visit other relatives.
