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The chapter cites Morton Fried's definition of political organizations. How does an anthropological perspective revise this definition? |
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Modern hunter-gatherers should not be seen as representative of isolated Stone Age peoples, all of whom also were foragers. Why? |
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Why does the textbook emphasize that categories such as band, tribe, chiefdom, and state are "ideal types"? |
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What distinguishes an archaic state from a modern state? |
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Modern foragers live in nation-states and an interlinked world. This often means that that these communities are not immune to the effects of outside events. What is one of the factors threatening the future of the Yanomami, a situation that illustrates this point? |
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