ANTH 1005- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 22 pages long!)
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Intersectionality: assessing how factors like race, gender and class interact to effect individual life chances and societal practices of stratification. Ken guest, politics and power, cultural anthropology, pp. 534-572. A small kinship-based group of foragers who hunt and gather for a living over a particular territory. An autonomous political unit composed of a number of villages or communities under the permanent control of a paramount chief. Service believes this is the transition point between simpler tribes and more complex states . An autonomous regional structure of political, economic, and military rule with a central government authorized to make laws and use force to maintain in order and defend its territory. International non-state actors are challenging the state/state sovereignty. Sovereignty is the right of the state to maintain self-determination within its borders. Spatialization of the state (ferguson and gupta) The perception that the state fills a particular space, encompasses all aspects of culture, and stands above all other elements of society.
