Anthropology 101 1st Edition Lecture 23Outline of Last Lecture I. Band-AcephalousII. Tribe III. Chiefdom-centralizedIV. State-centralizedV. Central coercive authorityVI. Achieved statusVII. Earned statusVIII. Ascribed status Outline of Current Lecture I. PowerII. Status III. Authority IV. Autonomy V. Political Organization VI. Maintaining controlVII. Cultural controlVIII. Social controlIX. Sanctions X. WitchcrafXI. Law XII. CustomXIII. Worldview XIV. Religion XV. Spirituality XVI. Syncretism XVII. Polytheism XVIII. Monotheism Current Lecture-PoweroAbility to get what you want and make people do what you want-Status oHigh status (position) respect oAlso have power but not necessarily-Authority oAuthority over others-power over others These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.oSometimes don’t have power over others like the popeoToday people admire the Pope because he has status but it may seem as though he has power he has no authority oAlthough he has authority he has a position that establishes him as being the head of an important institution the ability to control peoples activity is slim oOfficial or a moral quality that can go with power but does not always-Autonomy oAbility to control what you do yourself oAbility to determine what you are going to dooParticular type of power but does not extend to other peopleoMeans you decide what you are going to do "I am going to college"oA lot of societies children have little autonomy -Political Organization -Maintaining controloCultural controloEvery society has isoInvolves idea what is the natural way to act oControl that comes through learning the general outlines of society and culture oParents have control over children oSocial controloWhat will be say if….oAppealing to the community and saying things like what would people say if you do thatoAppealing to what the social consequences will be oSanctions oCan be applied formally and informally oPenalties or rewardsoPositive Go to college and get rich everyone likes youoNegativeIf you do this people will put you in jailoWitchcrafoAn attempt to do harm by manipulating the natural world through supernatural means oSocieties in which people agree they are witchesoNavajo don’t say they are a witch oLaw oHave to have writing oFixed knowable standard for what you ought to do oYou can't find law in societies without writing systemsoCustomoAgreed upon how people ought to behave -Worldview oWelt Anschauung oIdea of how people see the worldoEvery society and being has a world viewoOutlook of the nature of the universeoWhat life is all about -Religion oA set of beliefs about the spritiual or supernatural world and how it interacts with everyday life or set of beliefs about the spiritual or supernatural world and how that world interacts with the natural world oPretty much always involve rituals -Spirituality oConcerned with the sacred with stuff that is connected to spiritual entities (don’t necessarily have a concrete physical form)oEssences is not physical -Syncretism oElements of 2 or more religious systems and builds them into a religion and make them their own -Polytheism oBelief in multiple gods -Monotheism oBelief in one