In a course based on Anthropology: What does it mean to be human?, after reading about the domestication of plants and animals, we read:
- Chapter 7, “Why did humans build cities and establish states?”
- Michael Wilcox, “Marketing conquest and the vanishing Indian: An Indigenous response to Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse.” Journal of Social Archaeology (2010)
This lecture on “Complex Societies and States” begins with the question of “How do anthropologists define social complexity?” In the end, it seems to have to do with social stratification.
These materials were for Intro to Anthropology 2021. After that, we read about the anthropological concept of culture.