Anthropology 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Maya Peoples, Low-Alcohol Beer, Fifth Dynasty Of Egypt
10 Aug 2016
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Social status: the status of groups or individuals relative to one another. Originally thought that groups of people slowly progressed through this organizations but it is now determined that those assumptions are not true. They move around the landscape: egalitarian. No pronounced social differences: flexible leadership. Not always the same person: leaders rule by consensus. Tribe: united group of independent communities, leadership is informal, organized around kin groups linking people with shared ancestry. People who are actually related or people who believed that they were all descended from the same totem animal. Lecture: local group(s) under control of hereditary chief who controls surplus goods. They hold their power because they hold the surplus of goods: hierarchical social organization, chief"s power is not absolute. They still have to persuaded the people: example: neolithic england. State/civilization: surplus controlled by the elite, social stratification. Shared with chiefdoms: specialization of labour but more pronounced, monumental public works, formal government.
