Political anthropology developed as a discipline concerned primarily with politics in stateless societies, a new development started from the 1960s, and is still unfolding: anthropologists started increasingly to study more "complex" social settings in which the presence of states, bureaucracies and markets entered both ethnographic accounts and analysis of local phenomena.
Antropologi politik makembang dados displin sane mautama makaitan sareng politik ring masyarakat nenten wenten negara, perkembangan anyar punika kakawitin ring warsa 1960-an lan masih malangsung kanti mangkin: para antropolog wit mangkin ngeplajahin pangaturan sosial sane kompleks rikala kawentena negara, birokrasi, lan pasar macelep kakalih akun etnografi lan analisis fenomena lokal.