Chapter 8 - Power and Social Control
You should learn...
- to define power and authority (not the same thing!)
- to identify and describe the leadership and political organization present
among bands, tribes, chiefdoms, and states.
- how bands, tribes, chiefdoms, and states are linked to subsistence,
economy, and kinship, as well as to population.
- to identify and work with ideas of social stratification
Key Terms and Concepts
community
power
authority
band
tribe
chiefdom
state
sodality
social stratification social
control
law
song duel
moot
Big Men/Women
Some Important People and Societies
Elman
Service Morton
Freid Marshall
Sahlins
Ju/'hoansi
Nuer
Samoans
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