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.
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.