The Human Social Relations Changed With The Emergence Of...

The human social relations changed with the emergence of sedentary and surplus accumulation. This happened because people are moving to a place where they can live year round. The types of political economies that emerged were pyramidal and acephalous. The conditions that caused these differences is how fertile the land is. If the land was not fertile then they would have an acephalous political economy, where if the land was fertile then they would have a pyramidal political economy. The biggest new social structure is you start to see some type of class system. Big men legitimized their power by taking peoples land other than who they are helping. The human social relation changed with the emergence of sedentary and surplus accumulation. This change happened because people started to become sedentary. With becoming sedentary they have to worry about will they have enough supplies to last them thought out the winter. According to Sahlins â€Å"social relations are the flow of goods through people in the community† (Sahlins, 186). When people were hunters and gathers they had no value on items. If they had a bow and someone wanted that bow they gave it to them. Knowing that if they needed something they would get some from someone. Now with sedentary people they have a value on their stuff. Sahlins later talks about the different types of trading between people. People are now having to hide their extras so they can live through the winter. Hunters and gathers never had to hide