Anthropology 101 1st Edition Lecture 23 Outline of Last Lecture I II III IV V VI VII VIII Band Acephalous Tribe Chiefdom centralized State centralized Central coercive authority Achieved status Earned status Ascribed status Outline of Current Lecture I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X XI XII XIII XIV XV XVI XVII XVIII Power Status Authority Autonomy Political Organization Maintaining control Cultural control Social control Sanctions Witchcraf Law Custom Worldview Religion Spirituality Syncretism Polytheism Monotheism Current Lecture Power o Ability to get what you want and make people do what you want Status o o High status position respect Also have power but not necessarily Authority o Authority 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 o o Sometimes don t have power over others like the pope Today people admire the Pope because he has status but it may seem as though he has power he has no authority o Although 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 o Official or a moral quality that can go with power but does not always Autonomy o Ability to control what you do yourself o Ability to determine what you are going to do o Particular type of power but does not extend to other people o Means you decide what you are going to do I am going to college o A lot of societies children have little autonomy Political Organization Maintaining control o Cultural control o Every society has is o Involves idea what is the natural way to act o Control that comes through learning the general outlines of society and culture o Parents have control over children o Social control o What will be say if o Appealing to the community and saying things like what would people say if you do that o Appealing to what the social consequences will be o Sanctions o Can be applied formally and informally o Penalties or rewards o Positive Go to college and get rich everyone likes you o Negative If you do this people will put you in jail o Witchcraf o An attempt to do harm by manipulating the natural world through supernatural means o Societies in which people agree they are witches o Navajo don t say they are a witch o Law o Have to have writing o Fixed knowable standard for what you ought to do o You can t find law in societies without writing systems o Custom o Agreed upon how people ought to behave Worldview o Welt Anschauung o Idea of how people see the world o Every society and being has a world view o Outlook of the nature of the universe o Religion o What life is all about A 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 o Pretty much always involve rituals Spirituality o Concerned with the sacred with stuff that is connected to spiritual entities don t necessarily have a concrete physical form o Essences is not physical Syncretism o Elements of 2 or more religious systems and builds them into a religion and make them their own Polytheism o Belief in multiple gods Monotheism o Belief in one god