ANTH 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Andes, Teotihuacan, Mashantucket Pequot Tribe
28 Nov 2018
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The only territory on earth that does not lie within the boundaries of a nation-state is. Antarctica, which is unaffiliated territory because of an international treaty. Many other indigenous peoples who are encapsulated in modern nations. States are imperialistic (or expansionist") and therefore have a tendency to expand. Expanding into new territory and conquering indigenous and other peoples. Tribes" become ethnic groups" in the context of the nation-state. Early states must have developed from indigenous chiefdoms, but in a state, political authorities are rulers, not senior kin who are genealogically related to the people they govern. They do not depend on the aloha" of the people and there is no specific need to be. Because the state possesses a monopoly of force, state-level authority is more secure than the rule of chiefs. The very first state societies to develop on the earth. They developed independently in a limited number of regions in the world.
