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  2. State shapes - Wikipedia

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    A fragmented state has several noncontiguous pieces of territory. Archipelagos such as Philippines, Indonesia, and Fiji are examples of fragmented states. [1] A prorupted or protruded has an extension that protrudes from the main territory. [3] Thailand is an example of a prorupted state. [1] A perforated completely surrounds another state ...

  3. How the States Got Their Shapes - Wikipedia

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    The show deals with how the various states of the United States established their borders but also delves into other aspects of history, including failed states, proposed new states, and the local culture and character of various U.S. states. It thus tackles the "shapes" of the states in a metaphorical sense as well as a literal sense.

  4. State formation - Wikipedia

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    By establishing states, people are spared the chaos of Hobbes' "state of nature", where every individual will only act in their own interest and therefore harm thy neighbor (Samuels, 2010; Moehler, 2009) [50] [51] European states formed in alliance with the contractarian view of the state because of their lucky population boom in medieval times ...

  5. List of stateless societies - Wikipedia

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    This is a non-exhaustive list of societies that have been described as examples of stateless societies. There is no universally accepted definition of what constitutes a state , [ 1 ] or to what extent a stateless group must be independent of the de jure or de facto control of states so as to be considered a society by itself.

  6. Wakhan - Wikipedia

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    It was a tributary to Badakhshan, which itself was a tributary state of Qing China. [12] However, in the 1750s when the Qing dynasty conquered the Dzungar Khanate, Wakhan and Shighnan were incorporated into the Qing dynasty. [1] The Khanate of Kokand eventually annexed Wakhan and Shighnan from Qing China by the 1830s. [1]

  7. Family as a model for the state - Wikipedia

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    The family as a model for the organization of the state is a theory of political philosophy. It explains the structure of certain kinds of state in terms of the structure of the family (as a model or as a claim about the historical growth of the state), or it attempts to justify certain types of state by appeal to the structure of the family.

  8. Culture of the Southern United States - Wikipedia

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    Today, this region is the poorest in the state and one of the poorest regions in the country. It still remains mostly rural and has seen minimal development. Unlike the rest of southern Alabama, which was settled by British plantation owners, Mobile and the Gulf Coast was settled by Spanish and French settlers much earlier than the rest of the ...

  9. Cultural ecology - Wikipedia

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    Cultural ecology as developed by Steward is a major subdiscipline of anthropology. It derives from the work of Franz Boas and has branched out to cover a number of aspects of human society, in particular the distribution of wealth and power in a society, and how that affects such behaviour as hoarding or gifting (e.g. the tradition of the potlatch on the Northwest North American coast).