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Anthropology

a four-stage classification of societies by increasing scale and political integration.

In anthropology, band-tribe-chiefdom-state refers to a four-stage classification of societies by increasing scale and political integration. This meaning comes from Service (1962) in Primitive Social Organization; an Evolutionary Perspective.[1]

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References

Service, E. R. (1962). Primitive Social Organization; an Evolutionary Perspective. Random House. ISBN 9780394307831

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