ANT 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Feudalism, Normal Mode, Family Values
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Establishments of authoritative decisions involving the exertion of power. Politics appears as a competition between individuals or groups. Rules that create a political system involve prizes, personnel, leadership, competition and control. A system circulation of power and authority in a society. Maximization how individuals invest their resources, how they try to outwit each other to maximize value. The state organization the government and its employees and the actors situated in local communities. Ritual makes the social orders appear natural and inevitable. Masters of evasion successfully negotiates its relationship with the modern malagasy state on its own terms, refusing subordination. Anarchists conscious rejection of certain forms of overarching political power which also causes people to rethink and reorganize the way they deal with one another. War form of political violence (difficult to define) Economy integrated part of a social and cultural totality.
