Despite the analytical usefulness of learning about anthropologist Elman Service's typology of political organization into bands, tribes, chiefdoms, and states, it is important to remember that:.
A. Brownislaw Malinowski first came up with this typology.
B. It applies to only the reality of socities in the so called Third world.
C. none of these political entities, or polities, can be studied as a self-contained form of political organization, because all exist within nation-states.