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Friedman argues that Big Man systems develop in situtation where the flow of prestige goods cannot be monopolized, chiefdoms evolve where trade can be monopolozed p.98 refers to Johnson's simultaneous vs sequential (i.e. situational) hierarchies. notes societies have both types but may stress one or the other. p.103 `Big-Man' systems seem to be more pronounced when, in spite of whatever the tital population-level may be, there is a situation of relative shortage of people, or, in other words, an abundance of good soil. Whereas chiefly systems seem to be more accentuated in the case of a circumscribed - in whatever way- amount of (cultivable) soil in comparison to the total population".
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