pəlˈɪɾɪkəl ˌænθɹəpˈɑːlədʒi dɪvˈɛləpt æz ɐ dˈɪsɪplˌɪn kənsˈɜːnd pɹaɪmˈɛɹᵻli wɪð pˈɑːlətˌɪks ɪn stˈeɪtləs səsˈaɪəɾiz, ɐ nˈuː dɪvˈɛləpmənt stˈɑːɹɾᵻd fɹʌmðə nˈaɪntiːnhˈʌndɹɪd sˈɪksti z, ænd ɪz stˈɪl ʌnfˈoʊldɪŋ: ˌænθɹəpˈɑːlədʒˌɪsts stˈɑːɹɾᵻd ɪŋkɹˈiːsɪŋli tə stˈʌdi mˈoːɹ "kˈɑːmplɛks" sˈoʊʃəl sˈɛɾɪŋz ɪnwˌɪtʃ ðə pɹˈɛzəns ʌv stˈeɪts, bjʊɹɹˈɑːkɹəsiz ænd mˈɑːɹkɪts ˈɛntɚd bˈoʊθ ˌɛθnəɡɹˈæfɪk ɐkˈaʊnts ænd ɐnˈæləsˌɪs ʌv lˈoʊkəl fɪnˈɑːmɪnə.
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.