Political Anthropology

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• Age sets
• Affinal
• Age grades
• Atwan, Abdel Bari
• Authority
• Azande (cultural group)
• Band
• Bedouins (cultural group)
• Big man
• Bilateral descent, and bilateral cross-cousin marriage
• Burakumin (cultural group)
• Caste system
• Chiefdom
• Circumscription
• Codified law; Code of Hammurabi
• Diaspora
• Duels
• Egalitarian
• Feud
• Foragers
• Haida (cultural group)
• Hau
• Hereditary succession
• Hisbah
• Ideologies
• ISIS
• Jajmani
• Karma
• Legitimacy
• Leopard skin chief (Note: chief is older term)
• Lineage
• Manu
• Maori (cultural group)
• Matrilateral cross-cousin marriage
• Matrilineal
• Maus, Marcel
• Maya (cultural group)
• Mbuti (cultural group)
• Men’s house
• Natchez (cultural group)
• Nation
• Oaths
• Ordeal
• Patrilineal
• Peasants
• Poro and sande
• Potlatch
• Power
• Proletarianization
• Raid
• Ranked societies
• Reinforcement: positive; negative
• Restricted exchange
• Reverse dominance
• Segmentary lineage
• Service, Elman
• Shoshone (cultural group)
• Social classes
• Sodality State (definition; and types of states)
• Stratified societies
• Sumptuary rules
• Supernatural beliefs
• Theocracy Tiriki (cultural group)
• Total prestations
• Tribe
• Unilineal descent
• Varna
• Warfare