According to Harris, what does political leadership in bands/tribes look like compared with chiefdoms and states? How did “Big men” gain power and become chiefs?
Reflect on Harris’ concluding quote: “That someday the world would be divided into aristocrats and commoners, masters and slaves, billionaires and homeless beggars would have seemed wholly contrary to human nature as evidenced in the affairs of every human society then on Earth.”
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