ANT 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Ascribed Status, Risk Management, Scantron Corporation
9 Dec 2016
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Modern terminology bands (indigenous people groups that live in canada); tribes (american) Bands and tribes: mainly found in subsistence-based economies. Not a 1/1 correlation between subsistence strategy and political systems. Low population densities: types of problems (ex: conflict) is dealt with differently (less complexity) than high density populations. Maintenance of order: leaders: no absolute authority, control primarily via social sanctions (the group controls situations that affect them, organization: informal and temporary, authority can be temporary, informal. Bands: very small; fluid and mobile family groups, decisions usually made by consensus of adults, mobility helps diffuse tensions. Personal persuasion (achieved status through personal capabilities: e. g. Mela(cid:374)esia(cid:374) (cid:862)big me(cid:374)(cid:863: the ka(cid:449)elka: o(cid:374)gka"s big moka, usually men, rarely women. Systems with greater surplus; trade: redistribution; trade. Higher population densities: group can produce more than it needs which can support greater populations, including those who are not engaged directly, larger groups are harder to control; conflict is harder to deal with.
