MMW 11 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Endogamy, Complex Number
29 Oct 2016
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Signs of growing social differentiation: different ppl are buried w/ different stuff. Three authority factors: links to god, position as heads of kin, personal characteristics. Religious specialists were the first to work out formal rules of conduct that later became oral and written codes of law. Material that could be stored generated wealth over many generations. Wealth controls labor to amass more wealth. Patriarchy: the system in which men have more power and access to resources than women and some men are dominant over other men. Men are responsible for food and resources making women hard to survive w/o men. Women can only work within the house hold. Marriage among elites families are arranged to pass down wealth. Endogamy (selective breeding) causes physical difference between the wealth and the poor. Flexibility is needed to legitimate more ppl as social elites for the gene pool. Ppl trade corpers and forage it into tools.
