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The Evolution of Political Society: An Essay in Political Anthropology by Morton Fried PDF



"This is a neat and useful book marked by effortless erudition, clarity of thought, and constructive purpose. Fried’s intention is to describe the differences between kinds of society in terms of their political structures. He describes what he calls egalitarian society, then rank, then stratified society, and then the state, which he sees as a useful expression of a particular development of stratified society. Political structures are seen as hierarchical, but with an increasingly more complex, unyielding, and inegalitarian rendering of the notion of hierarchy." - Lionel Tiger



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