Moscow / New York / Oxford / Madison / Kinship / Cambridge / Lawrence / London / Chicago / /
Company
P. (2004) Comp / Brown / P. (2003) Comp / J. (1973) Comp / Coleman / P. (2001) Comp / Macmillan / /
Continent
Africa / Europe / /
Country
Myanmar / Montenegro / United States / United Kingdom / / /
Facility
Stanford University / University of California / /
IndustryTerm
average political product / segmentary systems / political product / expansive political systems / cognatic systems / marginal product / political / net political product / classic agnatic segmentary systems / social technologies / social technology / kinship systems / simpler social technology / symbolic devices / marginal political product / /
NaturalFeature
Highland Burma / Andes / /
Organization
Tribal Society / Cambridge Univ. / University of California / Berkeley / Sociologists of the Simmel / National Academy of Sciences / Harvard Univ. / Stanford University / Oxford Univ. / /
Person
Elizabeth Colson / Rachel Sullivan / G. William Skinner / J. R. Goody / Bernardo Lanza Queiroz / Omer Gersten / Ronald Lee / Henry Harpending / Murdock / Theory / /
Position
General / political leader / political actor / principal actor in the group / G. P. / Forward / /
ProvinceOrState
Kansas / Wisconsin / New York / California / /
PublishedMedium
Free Press / /
Region
Balkans / Central America / Central Asia / Near East / Southeast Asia / Southwest / /
SportsLeague
Stanford University / /
Technology
technology of exploitation / simpler social technology / Kin inequality Resources Social technology / technology of control / social technology / /
Kinship-based politics and the optimal size of kin groups E. A. Hammel* Departments of Demography and Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, CA[removed]Contributed by E. A. Hammel, June 30, 2005