ANT101H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Grave Goods, Pastoralism, State Religion
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Lecture 20: rise of the archaic states (03/26/2018) Status rights, duties, privileges & powers that accrue to a recognized and named social position. Limited position of valued status so that not everyone of sufficient talent can actually achieve them. Social structure with hierarchy in which relatively perm social stations are maintained. People have unequal access to life sustaining resources. Gender & sex still play a role in the division of labour. Tend to have economies that redistribute goods & services t/o the community. Those that do the redistribution keep some portion for themselves. This creates one r more ranked social tiers. Moundville chapter 13) tribal societies that lose autonomy one chief rules over a number of smaller villages. Chief redistributes goods collected from lower ranking people. Differences in status based on genealogical closeness to chief who holds permanent office. Kinship important in determining rank; lineages ranked in clans. Sedentary villages of different sizes (chief village has highest rank.
