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political structures ANTHRO
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- 1political organization is comprise dofsocial organization, groups and individuals that manage the affairs of public policy to seek control
- 2sociopoliticalexercise of power and regulation of relations among groups and representatives
- 3political lifebranches of government, political parties, dispute resolution, dispute prevention, resource distribution, police force, military, penal systems, nation to nation relations
- 4political integrationthe largest territorial group on whose behalf political activities are organized
- 54 political structuresband, tribal, chiefdom, state
- 6bandgroup or community is largest group that acts as a political unit
- informal leadership
- egalitarian
- mostly reciprocity - 7tribal- territorial populations in which there are kin and non kin groups
- lineages that connect them together
- egalitarian
- extensive agriculture or herding - 8chiefdom- formal structure that integrates more than one community into a political unit
- transitional form or sociopolitical organization between tribes and states
- large communities
rank society
- - 9Polynesian chiefdomchief regulates production, distribution, and consumption
- goods are moved up the hierarchy to central office then distributed through feasts
- makes products available to all societies - 10state- multilocal group made up of cities and towns
- much specialization among political officials
- intensive agriculture and herding, industrialization
- class and caste societies - 112 types of tribesthe big man, pantribal societies
- 12the big man- an elaborate version of a village head, common in melanesian islands
- often draws support from numerous villages
- achieved status rather than ascribed - 13pantribal sodalities- groups extending across full tribe, spanning several villages
- warfare, social organizations
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