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Modern Microcultures

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• dependent or semi-dependent on national state

• retain original ethnic or local differences

Basques

Mexican
Americans

American
Indians

American Indian
-- Wikipedia

e.g., Paul Buffalo

African-
Americans

The Shakers

Amish

Modern Folk Cultures

("peasant cultures")

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• dependent on national state

• original ethnic or local differences reduced

modern Maya (Appeals to Santiago)

typically,
villages
in large
countries

e.g., Kypseli

e.g., Mexico, India, China, etc.

States

State
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• control by means of force (coersion) or threat of force from institutionalized body of persons
  
  
• legitimacy based on consent of the governened, but in many societies legitimacy is based on relision

• state is constituted legally
  
  
• manner of force is made explicit
  
  
• other force outlawed
  
  
• society is divided into political- economic classes
  
  
• aristocracy = state bureaucrats, military leaders, upper priesthood
  
  
• other people = producers
  
  
• full-time professionals in arts and crafts, etc. (specialization of labor)

Chiefdoms

Chiefdom
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• chieftainship, with prestige accorded person in office
  
  
• the chief rules by means of the authority of his office (which he often gets through inheritance)
  
  
• tends to become permanent or hereditary

• this and all higher levels are "organismic"
  
  
• nonegalitarian
  
  
• labor specialization
  
  
• larger populations
  
  
• higher population density

Trobriand
Islanders

Tribes

Tribe
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• lineages and pantribal sodalities
  
  (nonresidential associations)

• greater size
  
  
• segmented
  (more subdivisions)
  
  
• associations
  
  
• leadership is charismatic
  
  
• has more definite boundaries
  
  
• still largely familial
  
  
• remains egalitarian
  
  
• most common with horticulturalists and pastoralists

Yanomamö

Bands
(slides)

Band society
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• familial, via kinship ties

• bottom and beginning of societal levels
  
  
• lack special integrative mechanisms
  
  
• most common with foragers (including hunting and gatherers)
  
  
• leadership is charismatic
  
  

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• The American Political Science Association