ANTH 1150 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Structural Violence, Ipperwash Crisis
4 Mar 2016
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Chapter 11: political organization and the maintenance of order. Adjudication: mediation with an unbiased third party making the ultimate decision. (p. 261) Band: a small group of related households occupying a particular region who gather periodically but do not yield their sovereignty to the larger collective. Everyone has access to such strategic resources as land and water to make a livelihood and everyone, even leaders or healers, has to work. Tribal: societies where no one can be deprived of access to strategic resources but not everyone is equal. Some groups have special privileges and a few people can become permanent leaders. More prestigious positions are often inherited, often patriarchal, and who holds them depends on the group into which they are born. Chiefdom: a regional organization in which two or more local groups are organized under a single chief, who is at the head of a ranked hierarchy of people.
