Outline of Chapter 12: Political Organization and the Maintenance of Order
 

Kinds of Political Systems
 

• UNCENTRALIZED POLITICAL SYSTEMS • Band Organization

• Tribal Organization

• Kinship Organization

• Age-Grade Organization

• Association Organization

  • CENTRALIZED POLITICAL SYSTEMS  
• Chiefdoms

• State Systems


• POLITICAL LEADERSHIP AND GENDER

  Political Organization and the Maintenance of Order
  • INTERNALIZED CONTROLS

• EXTERNALIZED CONTROLS
 

Original Study: Limits on Power in Bedouin Society
  Social Control Through Law
  • DEFINITION OF LAW

• FUNCTIONS OF LAW

• CRIME
 

Anthropology Applied: Dispute Resolution and the Anthropologist
  Political Organization and External Affairs
  • WAR   Political Systems & the Question of Legitimacy
 

Religion and Politics