Anthropology Essential Ideas/Terms

 1. All societies have customs or procedures that, organized on behalf of territorial groups, result in decision making and the resolution of disputes.  2. Societies with a band type of political organization are composed of fairly small, usually nomadic groups.

 3. Each of these bands is politically autonomous and authority in the group is usually informal. These bands are generally egalitarian hunter-gatherers.  4. Tribal organization are generally food producers, have a higher population density and are more sedentary.

 5. Tribal organization is defined by the presence of groupings (such as clans and age- sets) that can integrate more than one local group into a larger whole.

 6. Leaders in tribal societies are not wealthier than non-leaders.  7. Chiefdom organization has formal authority structures that integrate multi-community political units, are densely populated and more permanent and have social ranking.

 Anthropology, Archaeology, Culture, Ethnology, Human Variation, Paleoanthropology, Linguistics, Prehistory, Cultural Anthropology, Physical Anthropology

 the head of a tribe or clan

 Law is a system of rules, usually enforced through a set of institutions, applied to govern a group. It shapes politics, economics and society in numerous ways

 A situation in which people assume a group identity in political opposition to another group at the same level..

 an act punishable by law; usually considered an evil act

 a bitter quarrel between two parties

 the head of a tribe or clan

 the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state  a politically organized body of people under a single government

 a social division of (usually preliterate) people.  A tribe, viewed historically or developmentally, consists of a social group existing before the development of, or outside of, states.