ANTH 212 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Elman Service, Animal Husbandry, Segmentary Lineage
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Activities and beliefs pertaining to territorial groups. Vary in level of political integration, that is the largest territorial group on whose behalf political activities are organized. Does(cid:374)"t fit all so(cid:272)ieties (cid:271)ut useful to sho(cid:449) ho(cid:449) so(cid:272)ieties (cid:448)ary i(cid:374) tryi(cid:374)g to create and maintain social order. With handful of exceptions there are no politically autonomous bands or. Inuit bands are smaller in winter when food is hard to find and larger in summer when sufficient food to feed a larger group. Agreed upon community as a whole or decided by best qualified member. Leadership when an individual exercise it is not bossing. Each band might have an informal headman or its most proficient hunter or a person most accomplished in rituals (could be person or people) Segmentary lineage system: type of tribal integration based on kinship. A society is composed of segments each similar to each others in structure and function.
