Natural leadership in tribal societies. Acephalous societies and republican structures. Kingship and early despotic states. Theories of bureaucracy. Not open to students who have taken ANT 4274.
Areas treated are North America, Central America, South America, Africa, Oceania.
Theories of culture growth and evolution from cultural beginnings to dawn of history. Major inventions of man and their significance. Taxonomy, distribution, and ecology of primates. Range of primate behavior for each major taxonomic group explored. Theory of anthropology as applied to nursing, medicine, hospital organization, and the therapeutic environment.