How far can Anthropology contribute to a historical analysis of agencies of political authority?
I don’t want anybody to do the question for me, but some tips or suggestions would be nice!
How far can Anthropology contribute to a historical analysis of agencies of political authority?
I don’t want anybody to do the question for me, but some tips or suggestions would be nice!
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Well, when you read something like “Guns, Germs and Steel”, Diamond; “The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers”, Kennedy (not anthropology but history) or “The Collapse of Complex Societies”, Tainter. You definitely get a feeling that some political systems that exist today could take cautionary notes regarding the reasons other civilizations rise or fell.
Mostly these problems all exist today in one form or another in every major civilization, in this way the Chinese government, the US government, etc could learn lessons from the Babylonians, the Hittites and the Romans, about how to avoid the mistakes , they made.
Thats how it’s hugely important to today.
We disregard 10,000 years of human civilization and history at our own peril, for this reason.