Anna Horolets

ANTH 476 Political Anthropology  

3 credits 

Humans living in groups make collective decisions about organizing social activities, 

allocating and using resources, and maintaining security and stability within society. In 

negotiating decisions people rely upon ideologies, concepts and practices learned in the 

culture of daily life as well as in the more formalized practices of performances and rituals. 

Political anthropologists study the ways that social status, authority and power are created and 

used to shape collective and individual action, and the ways that authority is legitimated 

through cultural performances.