INDG
Tribal orgainization based on Kinship- the clan
Tribal: elders regulate affairs, from council, orgainze and represent clans
Clans: an association of people who CLAIM a common ansestor
Segmentary Lineage Organization
Informal organization - production is small, some gooods
Leopard Skin Cheif functions
Conciliation and negotiation (mediator)
Centralized Politcal Sytems - authority invested in cheifdom? in state?
- single indivdual
- body of indivudals
Cheifdom
Orgainzation in which 2 or more local groups are under a chief
Hierarchy of authority
figures that control subdivisons
Cheifdom Econmics: What is the prefred econmic system? What kind of authority does the cheif have? Coercion?
- Redistributive system
- Full control
- Amass a great deak of personal wealth
The State: Authority invtested in? Use of force/coercion
- Centrailzed in a goverment
- legal power to use force
Market Economies: Barter? Silent trade? Special Purpose money? Gneral purpose money?
- form of exchnaged goods through trading
- no verbal communication through barter
- restricted to buying/selling (gambling coins)
- buys and sells any item
Law and Order: increasingly codified structures
population growth and social relations
What forms does law exist in?
Formal and informal
Legal Authority
The right to compel others to obey laws (responsiblity)
Universal Application
The SAME rules applied to everyone
Legal Rights and Duties
Rules set to follow
Sanctions
Action taken when law has been violated
Types of Peaceful Conflict Resolution
- Neogtiation: communication between parties
- Mediation: neogtiation with neutral third party
- Adjudication: A mediator with the power to enforce a decision
- Community Action: entire society may moblize to resolve conflcit
- Court: formal institution that asserts authority (negative sanctions)
- Religious Institutions: goverment is weak, reglion is strong
Types of Violent Connflict Resolution
- Retribution: personal use of force to redress wrongs
- Feuds: armed conflict between 2 groups
- Raids: orgainzed violence to recieve econmic benefit
- Warfare: armed combat