ANT 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: Free Silver, Silver Standard, Dynastic Cycle
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Proposes two types of how they end. Primitive means spontaneous disillusion (dissolving) of internally generated forces that produces small politically organized regime. Ends up internal breaking up into smaller regimes. Already small societies to begin with important to know often times in history. Feudalism of decay decay of highly centralized large empires where political institutions fail and political authority fragments into units. Roman empire--> how it fell, broke down into large centralized states into small organized units. Cycle of decentralized units and recentralized again and break up and become centralized again. Look over reading by marx on race notes. Artificial boundaries impose an unnatural distinction between the boundary of two groups (skin color) Decision to divide is arbitrary and not based on natural patterns. People of somalia are more similar to saudi arabians than of south. Race is part of the global discourse of power.
