He holds the key to how Chicago is run, dealing with city departments, and getting about anything done in this city. In anthropology, four levels of political organization are recognized. We will describe these to illustrate important points later. Let us examine them in a concise fashion now. They subsist on hunting and gathering.
Nature is their storehouse.
Tribes are largely loosely knit groups of a few hundred of people with informal leadership in an organization based on kinship by blood or marriage. Chiefdoms are thousands of people with power consolidated in a council or a single leader. Such a society now has classes with differences in wealth, prestige, and power. Wealth held by the elite is often accumulated by tribute, a technique just short of taxation. They have social classes with extreme differentials in wealth, prestige, and power.