ANTH 212 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Segmentary Lineage, Elman Service, Nationstates
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Textor: societies with state organization tend to have cities and towns whereas those with only local organizations are more likely to have communities with average population fewer than 200. Societies with higher levels of political integration are more likely to exhibit social differentiation especially in the form of class distinctions. Competition between groups may be a more important reason for political consolidation than economic development. Among agriculturalists, defensive need reason for switch between informal multivillage political organization to more formal chiefdom organization: formally organized districts are more likely to defeat autonomous villages or even segmentary lineage systems. Chiefdoms: economic: service: chiefdoms will emerge when redistribution between communities becomes important or when large- scale coordinated work groups are required. First state societies in 3500 bc in southern iraq, egypt, northwestern. Whether by depopulation, conquest, or intimidation, number of independent political units in the world has decreased strikingly in the last 3,000 years, especillay in the last.
