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Details Title: Mid-Term Review Description: hierarchy and big men Total Flash Cards: 7 Created: 10/05/2007 15:52:22	To study from this set of flash cards, or to create your own your own study flash cards, register HERE. If you are already a registered user, CLICK HERE.
Cards Term social stratification Definition arranging the members of a society into a pattern of superior and inferior ranks. Term division of labor Definition the division of tasks in a society between women and men, old and young, ability, knowledge, experience. Term egalitarian Definition a society without formalized differences in the access to power, influence, and wealth. Term big man Definition a form of leadership in tribes where the leader achieves power and influence based on ability. Term redistribution Definition a mechanism whereby a politically or economically powerful individual (or group) collects goods and services from the members of society and reallocates them among the society's members. Term of hierarchy associated with subsistence strategies egalinarianism Definition Hunting and gathering Term Types of hierarchy associated with subsistence strategies Division of laybor Definition agriculture